Kissing a Butterfly
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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When I snapped this photo of our cat the other day, I had no idea she was ‘kissing’ this butterfly until I downloaded the image onto my computer.
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I’m almost certain it’s a younger member of the species in the second photo below, which turned up in my garden in France.
Butterfly (France 2007)
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I’ve had no luck in finding its name. Can anybody out there can identify it for me?
My (not so) lean, mean, stalking machine
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My cat didn’t eat the butterfly, just kiss it!
Ann
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looks like a cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae)
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=2069
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It certainly IS a Cinnabar Moth! Thanks for identifying it for me.
I also now know that had its larvae in the garden (and have a photo of one (at least) in fact) and the Senecio plants which the larvae like to eat.
Ann
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