What is this moth and why is it red?

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What is this moth and why is it red?
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Éanna Ní Lamhna on the native Irish honeybee, oozing slime and a frog’s life

It is a cinnabar moth, which flies from May until August in bright sunshine. Its red markings warn would-be predators that it tastes horrible, so they leave it alone. The yellow and black caterpillars feed on ragwort and it is the toxins in the ragwort that cause the awful taste in both the caterpillars and the adults.I caught this little one in the picture while photographing the white climbing hydrangea in my back garden in Clontarf, when they were in full flower and buzzing with bees.

What are these bright orange blobs found on a tree stump in my garden? I’m intrigued to know if they are fungi or insect eggs or something else as I’ve never seen them before.While at first sight these may look like a group of young puffballs, they are not so. They are the fruiting bodies of a slime mould, probably Lycogala epidendrum: wolf’s milk, so-called because the immature fruit bodies contain a pink, paste-like fluid. When mature they are filled with a grey, powdery mass of spores.

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