The Independent - London, October 30th, 1994
BRITAIN'S only pink butterflies are fluttering into the history books just a stone's throw from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Leading entomologists are amazed that they have witnessed a metamorphosis of one of the most common butterflies in the country, the large or "cabbage" white, into a vibrant pink hue.
Stratford Butterfly Farm has successfully bred about 20 pink specimens of the cabbage white, Pieris brassicae. It is the first confirmed case of a pink British butterfly.
John Calvert, the farm's manager, said that the pink colour appeared to be the result of a na...
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