Red Admiral Butterfly - Identification & Facts 

I've had a lot of connections with Red Admirals throughout my life, it's my favourite butterfly, for one. When my great grandmother was on her deathbed she apparently also said that she will be resurrected as a Red Admiral. It was also the one and only butterfly I have ever seen dead. I love them

This is so amazing! Great video Rob! 💯

Watching this because I made friends with one haha. Showed up in the garden last Tuesday (a week ago to the day) and it's been visiting me most days since (approx. 6-8pm), playing with me. Sadly hasn't been landing on me much (I think it's because I'm usually covered in midge repellent, I live in the Scottish Highlands) but it buzzes and bops me, always sneaking up from behind. I feel really privileged (how many people get to say they made friends with a butterfly!?). Shame they don't last long, will lose my new pal very soon. :(

I had a red admiral in my garden today!

Saw one today plus a Monarch plus a Yellow Swallowtail

I have some in my garden 😊

I use rotten fruit mixed with sugar to attract them

They also love rotting apples

Here in Canada the butterfly bush has been identified as non native and not a useful or healthy choice of food for our native insects. Next time you have show native insects please show native flowers or shrubs. Buddleja davidii, also called summer lilac, butterfly-bush, or orange eye, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae, native to Sichuan and Hubei provinces in central China, and also Japan. It is widely used as an ornamental plant, and many named varieties are in cultivation. The genus was named Buddleja after Reverend Adam Buddle, an English botanist. The species name davidii honors the French missionary and explorer in China, Father Armand David, who was the first European to report the shrub. It was found near Yichang by Dr Augustine Henry about 1887 and sent to St Petersburg. Another botanist-missionary in China, Jean-André Soulié, sent seed to the French nursery Vilmorin, and B. davidii entered commerce in the 1890s.

Great video. I don't know about Europe but budleia is invasive in the US and the larvae won't survive on it. There may be some good native alternatives.

There didn't seem to be much explanation as to how to ID them. Maybe some close up shots with wings fully open and then closed closed would have helped a bit. Sorry for being grumpy yesterday, lol.

Red Admiral Butterflies are nice.

Hi got lots today on my budilegher best show for year's chapel st Leonard's Lincolnshire

The visuals look so amazing. I love watching nature do what it does.

so god damm fabulasssssss what cute bugger :)

That's beautiful 😍

Beautiful my man

Beautiful wee film. Definitely one of the best thing about summer in my view, butterflies!

How gets the color on the wings?

Beautifully shot, Rob! Would love to see some bts or a process video on this

nice

They are unafraid of landing on humans, cool!

😍😍😍

I've seen those butterflies in California and in Washington state.

We loved this video and have learned a lot about the Red Admiral butterfly. Thank you for making this video. From All the Girls in Room 14, St Mary's Primary School, Trim, Co Meath, Ireland

Just saw this in my back garden.

I got to see this beautiful creature in 2019 in Pennsylvania at Longwood Gardens and then this year at my house.