Previous response to my identification is not correct. I have now been to the library trawling through all the books and can find nothing to resemble it. I think I may have seen somethimg like at the Wisley Glasshouse earlier this year... It is a medium sized butterfly. Its wings were in the open po...

Hello, I am new to the site. Last week I saw a red and black butterfly on my lavender. I have only now got round to trying to identify it but is not in my british butterfly book. It was pure black and pillar box red with a lacey pattern a little like the monach butterfly. Its body was jet black and ...