scarlet tiger moth
callimorpha dominula latin

The Scarlet Tiger Moth uses both camouflage and warning colour according to its situation.

They studied the peppered moth, the scarlet tiger moth and swallowtail butterfly.

The only previous experiments of this type were Ronald Fisher and E.B. Ford's (1947) with the scarlet tiger moth.

The site contains many invertebrates including the uncommon scarlet tiger moth (Callimorpha dominula) and the nationally scarce pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne).

The scarlet tiger moth Callimorpha (Panaxia) dominula (family Arctiidae) occurs in continental Europe, western Asia and southern England.

Marigold Lambourne, of the Royal Society of Entomologists, was there on behalf of both the Scarlet Tiger Moth and the Map butterfly.

The Scarlet Tiger Moth (Callimorpha dominula, formerly Panaxia dominula) is a colourful dayflying moth of Europe and the near East.

Janet Braiswick, of the English Entomologists, was walking with him and he told her about the gold crests and about seeing scarlet tiger moths when he was a boy.

And at Friston, work to open up the forest, which was planted on chalk heath, to create new habitats has helped encourage hazel dormice, nightingales, scarlet tiger moths and a range of plants.

Alongside the river, the reed beds, grasses and other vegetation support many other insect species, including the Scarlet Tiger Moth, Poplar Hawk Moths and Privet Hawks.

Clarke continued research in his retirement and in 1988 he rediscovered a Scarlet Tiger Moth colony on the Wirral Way, West Kirby, that had been started in 1961 by Philip Sheppard.

In 1961 Sheppard started a colony of scarlet tiger moths by the Wirral Way, West Kirby, Merseyside, which were rediscovered in 1988 by Cyril Clarke, who continued to observe them in his retirement to study changes in the moth population.

The site contains many invertebrates including the uncommon scarlet tiger moth (Callimorpha dominula) and the nationally scarce pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne).

Callimorpha dominula dominula (Baltic, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Western Russia and Central Europe)