Although a visitor from England, I would like to know what this insect is. It is not something I have seen one before. It's body is blue/black and the wings are basically the same with 3 red markings down each wing. It seemed to specialise in visiting scabious.
That is the Six-spot burnet Moth (Zygaena filipendulae): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-spot_Burnet
It is quite a common day-flying moth in England as well as elsewhere in Europe.
It would be good if you would add your picture to our BugFiles page:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/818/
As you can see the page is not well illustrated so far,
Ken
Thanks, Ken. It didn't occur to me that it was a moth! I have posted the photo to the database as suggested.
