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"kay" wrote in message ... 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. |
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