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Black and red butterfly

Working from home has its advantages, especially when you face your garden while typing away on your laptop. I got distracted when I noticed a very red butterfly flapping away. I didn’t remember ever having seen a red butterfly. I got up, grabbed my camera and hoped that it would stay still somewhere. It did! It was a cinnabar moth, or in Dutch: de Sint-Jacobsvlinder.

Despite being a moth, these butterflies fly during daytime. They’re about 20mm tall and  and have a wingspan of 32–42 mm.

As caterpillars they feed on the ragwort plant (Sint-Jacobskruid), which I have already covered here in Dutch. Because of this they eat poisonous substances of which they can’t get rid of and therefore become poisonous themselves.

You can see this butterfly from April till the beginning of August.

Source: wikipedia.org

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  • Het Wilde Leven
  • 9 juni 20208 juni 2020
  • butterflies / vlinders, Geen categorie, Insects
black, butterfly, cinnabar moth, ragwort, red, rood, sint-jacobskruid, sint-jacobsvlinder, vlinder, zwart

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Het Wilde Leven, or translated, The Wild Life, is what I like most: going into nature and capture (photograph) the small things on Earth. They are often overlooked, but each plant and insect is unique and worthy of our attention.

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