blossom hill
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:27 am Post subject: What was this beautiful creature???? |
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Hello, today I rescued a butterfly/moth? It was on the floor out side my local Sainsburys so to avoid it being stomped I moved it. I would like you lovely people to help me if you can. I have no idea what is was so if you can identify it for me I would really apreciate it.
Its body was bright red and fairly fury, its underside of wings were an orangy yellow colour and its topside was black with small off-white-ish spot/patches.
It was beautiful and I would like to look into its species further if you can help me.
Thank you very much. 
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toni
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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For me, not living in England, it will be impossible to say what the butterfly is without a picture. 
But I did find a cool website that you could check out to see if it is among the photos they have.
http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/butterfly_list/32/a_z_of_butterflies_.html
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blossom hill
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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thanks toni  i'll check it out.
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toni
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Please let us know if you find it there and which one it is. It does sound very pretty, the colors and designs on butterflies and moths is amazing sometimes.
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eileen
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds like some kind of Tiger Moth to me Blossom - maybe a Garden Tiger or even the rarer Jersey Tiger.
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blossom hill
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Thank you Eileen, your spot on. I've been searching all arvo and its a cream-spot tiger Arctia villica. Beautiful. So chuffed I found and saved it.
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eileen
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There are some very attractive moths around and I think the Tigers are among the most beautiful. I'm so glad you had the presence of mine to help it and stop it being squished.  Well done!!
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blossom hill
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:54 am Post subject: |
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 thanks, me too! U name it I'll save it
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Guido
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Great! The only moths I've ever seen were from unattractive white over unattractive brown to unattractive grey.
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blossom hill
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:33 am Post subject: |
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maybe you have seen a beautiful moth and just assumed it was a butterfly, I thought this was more likely to be a butterfly to be honest. 
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| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| blossom hill wrote: | Thank you Eileen, your spot on. I've been searching all arvo and its a cream-spot tiger Arctia villica. Beautiful. So chuffed I found and saved it.
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Yes it looks like a butterfly. Thank you for rescuing this poor creature.
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