Larval Food Plant=Common Nettle
Flight Period=May-Oct
Species Description
The Red Admiral is a beautiful colourful butterfly. It is a migrating butterfly from S Europe. The Red Admirals numbers vary from year to year. Fortunately most years it has been fairly common and widespread throughout most of England and Wales except in fore in the north. The adult Red Admiral is fond of drinking juices from common garden flowers. If you want to try and encourage Red Admirals to yore garden leave out some rotten fruit. They often drink the juices out of them as well.
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