pink butterfly??

[animartco]

The black body rather suggests a new colour variation in the cinnabar. Shall watch this space to see how many other reports.

[Jason Green]

...but all Cinnabars have black bodies, don't they?

[animartco]

Originally Posted by Jason Green

...but all Cinnabars have black bodies, don't they?

Yes Jason. I can't think of any moths or butterflies with a body as jet black. That's why I thought that a bright pink moth with a black body was likely to be a cinnabar variation with all pink wings.

[Pete Collins]

WAB is obviously getting to me - I dreamed about a pink butterfly last night!

It was actually pink and grey, the pink being all around the edges of the wings. I think it was similar in size and shape to a Common Blue. But I'm not really expecting an ID (just some comments on my mental well-being!).

[jam_cam]

Hi Everyone.

OK, I have just spent the afternoon chasing a moth with fuschia pink wings and black body around my front garden, probably much to the amusement of my neighbours. I was convinced that it was something exotic that matched the description of some of the posts here.

I could not get a shot of the moth in flight - it was too blustery and the flight was too erratic. However, when I FINALLY saw the thing land on a hawthorn on the edge of the wood next door to my garden, I managed to get a shot, and to my surprise it was a Six-spot Burnet. I am no lepidopterist, but I would have bet my house on it NOT being one - I was convined that the wings were solid fuschia pink, but at rest it looks so completely different - I think it maybe something to do with sunlight coming from behind the moth in flight, and of course the fact that the hind wings ARE solid carmine, so will dominate the attention of the eyes.

Anyway, I will try to get a shot in flight to see if that helps anyone - but as others have said - it's definitely worth considering the Six-spot Burnet as a candidate, not matter how convinced you are that it is something different.

Feel free to sign up to my wildlife blog at `Our Wood` Wildlife in Warrington, Cheshire. to see the photo, and find out about lots of other exciting things too!

Cheers,

Jamie.

[mogcat]

Just joined today as I have seen a bright pink butterfly in my garden in north essex. Never seen such a vivid pink .It wasnt any of those pictured,if I see it again my camera is at the ready so heres hopeing.

[Purplepixii]

Originally Posted by mogcat

Just joined today as I have seen a bright pink butterfly in my garden in north essex. Never seen such a vivid pink .It wasnt any of those pictured,if I see it again my camera is at the ready so heres hopeing.

Welcome to WAB Mogcat - I hope you enjoy it and find it useful

Good luck getting a photo of the butterfly - many of us watch this thread with bated breath waiting for a photo of a new Barbie-pink butterfly...

[Jason Claxton]

Originally Posted by mogcat

Just joined today as I have seen a bright pink butterfly in my garden in north essex. Never seen such a vivid pink .It wasnt any of those pictured,if I see it again my camera is at the ready so heres hopeing.

Hi Mogcat and welcome to WAB

Yes...this sounds somewhat familiar ,could it have been a Cinnabar moth or one of the Burnet moths.

Cheers Jason.

[earthdragon64]

Just to add that there is a colour form of the Cinnabar moth where the forewing is all red with just a thin black outline - Tyria jacobaea f. coneyi.

From the picture in Waring and Townsend, the red colour looks a bit pinker than the normal Cinnabar red.

I can't find an online image of it unfortunately, just the normal version.

Regards, Audrey.

[whaleomeloette]

oh.. my... god. just read all 16 pages of this and my eyes are practically falling out.
its amazing how many people think cinnabars and burnets are pink colour blindness on the up! lol

i thought this was a case of a person setting up several accounts for a laugh at first, but it seems people genuinely mistook a cinnabars colouring for pink.

however i cant belive there is 1 person who shant be swayed and is convinced they saw a barbie pink butter!

all i can say is:
barlett

from wiki:
'He composed a series of short fables each of which comprised a sequence of events. He would recite this story to subjects, then later (years in some cases i think- how appropriate) ask them to recall as much of it as possible. He discovered that most people found it extremely difficult to recall the story exactly, even after repeated readings, and hypothesised that, where the elements of the story failed to fit into the schemata of the listener, these elements were omitted from the recollection, or transformed into more familiar forms'

this is one of the stories he used
War of the Ghosts
people would think it was a boat not a canoe, swords not arrows etc

the same principle has been applied to film and real situation- but not with regards to changing to fit their schemata
just blatent exagerating and convincing your self afterwards! haha
its why eye witnesses on the whole are xexexexe

experiment:
a group of people were taken out on a 'nature walk' with camera helmets to show what they actually saw. (they knew it was an experiment but not what type)
they walked passed some official looking army folk guarding a bit of taped of area in the forest.
when asked to recall later; one claimed she saw 3 armed guards! another said there was 2 with guns...no guns. another even claimed to see space wreckage lololo

basically all im saying it. it was what... 4 years ago now? im sure its more vidid pink in your mind than it actually was, the amount of times iv watched something on televison and watched it again years later and thought ''thats not how i remembered it?!''