One of my early memories from mid-August holidays during the long school break, was seeing The Cinnabar caterpillars gorging on Ragwort. I was a bit surprised to find lots of fully grown caterpillars doing this on my visit to Brownsea at the start of July. The hot, dry Spring of 2026 has been setting lots of records for flying Moths, Butterflies, Dragonflies etc, so I guess this early date shouldn't be too surprising.
For some reason, my Birding database is using this older name of The Cinnabar, rather than Cinnabar or Cinnabar Moth. As I've not got time to change all the records, photos etc I'm just going to stick with this older name.
