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Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: abc123 on June 25, 2019, 04:52:28 pm

Title: Butterfly
Post by: abc123 on June 25, 2019, 04:52:28 pm

Can anyone tell me what sort of butterfly this is?
Dennis the menace butterfly? :D

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Post by: vegpatch on June 25, 2019, 04:56:28 pm

Looks like a cinnebar moth - one of the day-flying moths.  It's larvae like ragwort.

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Post by: in the hills on June 25, 2019, 06:43:51 pm

I'm with vegpatch.

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Post by: Buttermilk on June 26, 2019, 08:15:40 am

I dont have any ragwort but I do have these moths so they obviously feed on other plants too.

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Post by: DavidandCollette on June 26, 2019, 09:26:08 am

They like my Poly tunnel, not sure what they are looking for as we haven't come across caterpillars

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Post by: abc123 on June 26, 2019, 06:49:39 pm

Interesting. Thanks all.
I dont have any ragwort that I know of either.

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Post by: Fleecewife on June 26, 2019, 07:17:54 pm

They like groundsel too, and everyone must have that!

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Post by: Buttermilk on June 27, 2019, 01:51:28 pm

Plenty of groundsel around here.