
Dark Bordered Beauty
This brightly coloured small moth is most frequently pink with yellow patches and margins, and a fine purple border. However, almost entirely pink individuals with small yellow spots can occur.
Flies from dusk onwards, but is easily disturbed from vegetation during the day.
Caterpillars feed on Marsh Cinquefoil (Comarum palustre)
Frequents damp habitats including heaths, fens and mosses.
Purple-bordered Gold - Ilia Ustyantsev
Ilia Ustyantsev
Purple-bordered Gold - Tim Melling
Tim Melling
Purple-bordered Gold - Garry Barlow
Garry Barlow
Purple-bordered Gold - Marcell Kárpáti
Marcell Kárpáti