"kay" wrote in message
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No Name;964168 Wrote:
Ragnar wrote:--
Oddly, I think I would recognise a red admiral.
Could have been one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/bl8rzok-

Very pretty but not a butterfly of course.-

If it /is/ that one, it appears to be a cinnabar moth:
'Identify a day-flying moth - Butterfly Conservation'
(http://tinyurl.com/d399s5u)

One reason for not killing all the ragwort.


Unless you have horses. They will rarely eat ragwort when it is growing but
when dried in hay they will and not a lot of it causes severe liver damage
up to and including death.
Cinnabar moths do prefer ragwort as a caterpillar plant but their
caterpillars can also do without it and eat various grasses.
ISTR that ragwort is a notifiable weed and you are obliged to pull it up by
law. I might be wrong on this. When I had a horse I was ruthless if one
plant popped it's head up in her paddock.
I like cinnabar moths but I liked my horse better.
My friend's pony died from ragwort poisoning and was ill for ages before
diagnosis so I never took that chance.