Ragnar wrote:
Oddly, I think I would recognise a red admiral.
Could have been one of these:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/i...70_470x352.jpg

Very pretty but not a butterfly of course.

If it /is/ that one, it appears to be a cinnabar moth:
http://www.butterfly-conservation.or...tures=&Family=