Raising moths

Last year the kids managed to successfully raise an orange tip https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1011496/orange-tip-butterfly#latest butterfly from a caterpillar, which was really exciting. Last summer we tried again with an unidentified caterpillar, which we had pinned down to a fairly vague groups of white moths. It has been pupating in the shed since then until they brought it in a couple of weeks ago. Them this morning we got this absolute beauty! Looks like a cinnabar, but most definitely wasn’t a cinnabar caterpillar, so I think it must be one of the burnets?




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When I kept horses and cattle I was scrupulous about removing ragwort from the grazing and hay meadows, but we left
what grew on the disused railway embankment that ran through our place and topped it before it seeded.