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Burnet Moth

Zygaena fausta

Description:

Day flying moth with red striped abdomen. Caterpillars eat a variety of low growing legumes: Vetches etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygaena_fau...

Habitat:

Coastal scrub

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7 Comments

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Gorgeous!

Daniel-CR
Daniel-CR 12 years ago

Very beautiful !!!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Just try to Edit and fill details as required... in description why you shoot this and your view of this organism...!!

craigwilliams
craigwilliams 12 years ago

Will do Ashish - when I get a minute. Getting hassled by my better half to spend more time looking for a job at the mo'! What in particular did you want to know?

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Craig.. Request you to add story of this spotting in description... This is really a Great spotting for me...!!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Assign to Red mission too...

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Very Nice.

craigwilliams
Spotted by
craigwilliams

Andalucía, Spain

Spotted on Apr 3, 2011
Submitted on Oct 8, 2011

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