Thanks for the photo. It was definetly a Swallowtail butterfly sp and not a moth. I am inclined to think that it was an escape from somewhere.

Living in South Cumbria, I was more than a little surprised to see an Butterfly showing chracteristics of a Swallowtail in the garden this morning. I have had experience of the Common Swallowtail in Continental Europe and this clearly was not one. It was predominantely white - the markings were more...