In article , Neil Jones
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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote in message news:zr8w8
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In article , Tumbleweed
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I'd say they probably are threatened, certainly as a kid I used to see lots,
very rare these days, I see more tortoiseshells and those brown one's whose
name I forget.

Probably Speckled Woods - food plant is Garlic Mustard, which occupies
the base of the hedgerows round here.


I think you are confusing them with Orange Tips (which do use Garlic Mustard).
Speckled Wood caterpillars re grass feeders. I have successfully bred them on
Couch Grass.

Neil Jones
http://www.butterflyguy.com/

Oops. "It's not the things that we don't know that's a problem; it's the
thing we know which ain't so" - Mark Twain, probably not in those exact
words.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley