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from Stephen Howard contains these words:


No shortage of Cinnabar moths in my garden!
I have a couple of patches of very dismal looking ragwort which are
infested with the bright orange and black striped caterpillars - they
really go to town on the plant.

Lucky you. Although ragwort is abundant here I never see either
cinnabar moths or their caterpillars (my favourite kind, as a child in
England). Do they live as far north as Scotland? Malcolm will know.

ATM the verges here are all yellow and scarlet with ragwort and montbretia.

Janet (Isle of Arran)