Death by Burnet

5 spot burnet moth

This time is year is characterised by many things. The occasional sunny day (it is Summer, apparently).  Hayfever. England’s cricketers gloriously losing or (this summer at least) emphatically winning. Wild orchids in their Sunday best. And the sight, on many of our grassy downlands, of a butterfly that seems have to come over from the dark side. It’s black with red spots on its wings, and when you look a little more closely, you realise that’s its not a butterfly,

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