It's a moth...

[Spartan luke]

Never seen one of these before, anybody ever seen one?

[Marc W]

It's a Cinnabar, one of these;

http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/Moth/440/Mot...

[Spartan luke]

Theres me thinking iv discovered a new species haha. Lolls cool tho

[mrmaggit]

They used to almost cover the railway embankment near where I used to live. Feed on Ragwort IIRC.

[AMLK]

See them in their hundreds down on the dunes at Tentsmuir. I thought they were a butterfly until I googled them - very pretty moth.