By Ladyessex1
Leigh-on-Sea Essex, United Kingdom
Here I am again, I'm after another ID of this flower & the Moth/Butterfly? I'm entering it in my Camera Club
(Wild Flower) competition, where you have to name the flower ect.
Jackie xx
PS. I will be back asking for more ID's on Wild Flowers :o))
- 10 May, 2018
Answers
Yes as Tug says, usually called Ragwort. Don't know the moth.
10 May, 2018
Possibly a Bright-line Brown-eye Moth (Tomato Moth) ...
10 May, 2018
I went through my insect book, Lady E, and the nearest that I could find was what Shirley says. A Bright-line Brown-eye, though the picture in my book varies on two or two details. Nothing else came close though.
10 May, 2018
Yes I also think it is a Bright-line Brown eye. some slight colour variation is usual, depending on how freshly emerged it is really. Also agree it is a ragwort plant.
10 May, 2018
The ragwort is the foodplant of the cinnabar moth. The caterpillars are very striking in black and yellow stripes but I don;t know whether the moth shown is the cinnabar moth.
10 May, 2018
That's not a cinnabar moth. Although the cinnabar is the creature most often mentioned as being totally reliant on ragwort, the plant has been known to support over seventy different species.
There's a lot of misplaced hysteria about common ragwort so be ready for someone at your camera club spouting nonsense about it.
10 May, 2018
Previous question
Next question
Maybe Senecio jacobaea?
10 May, 2018