Wildlife of the Dolomites

Pale di San Martino mountains, with alpine meadows and mixed Spruce, Fir, Larch and Pine forest
A mass of Narrow-Bordered Five-Spot Burnet Moths on Knapweed

Beetles

Red Pine Longhorn
Black-striped Longhorn Beetle
Spotted Longhorn
Bee parasite Beetle, Trichodes apiarius

Butterflies and moths

9-spotted moth, Stenurella bifasciata
Narrow-bordered 5-spot Burnet Moth
Sulphur Knapweed moth
Queen of Spain Fritillary
Knapweed Fritillary
Brown Argus
Silver-Studded Blue
Chalkhill Blue
Common Blue
Large Wall Brown
Scotch Argus
Gypsy Moth Caterpillar parasitised by Braconid Wasps
Lesser Cream Wave moth
PIne Hawkmoth caterpillar
Common Heath moth

Other insects

Stone Grasshopper
Green Grasshopper
Great Green Bush-Cricket
Golden-Ringed Dragonfly
Male Common Darter
Large Pine Weevil
Halictus scabiosae mining bee
Brown-Banded Carder Bee, Bombus pascuorum, with Giant Forest Ant, Camponotus
Saxon Wasp (Dolichovespula saxonica)
Nest of Paper Wasp, Polistes
Orange-backed Tachinid Fly

Flowers

St Bernard’s Lily, Anthericum
Greater quaking-grass
Sticky Thistle, Cirsium
Squinancywort, Asperula
Creeping Bellflower
Small Yellow Foxglove
Fringed Pink
Cow-wheat, a hemiparasite
False Hellebore, Veratrum
Common Spotted Orchid
Heath Spotted-orchid
Alpine Butterbur
Bladder Campion
Harebells
Martagon Lily
Dark-red Helleborine
Rowan or Mountain Ash
Purple Broomrape, parasitic on Yarrow
Keeled Garlic
Goldenrod
Yellow Rattle, parasitic on grasses
Clary Sage, in an alpine meadow
Sticky Clary (Salvia glutinosa), Val Sugana
Grassy Stitchwort
Lingon or Cowberry
Purple rattlesnake root
Baneberry, Actaea spicata
Mullein

Mosses and Ferns

Haircap Moss, Polytrichum
Polypody Fern

Lichens and Fungi

Dog Lichen, Peltigera canina
Parmelia-type leafy lichens
Cladonia lichen
Evernia cf prunastri, Usnea (beard lichen)
Suillus grevillei, Larch Bolete

Vertebrates

Kestrel
Black Redstart

A Human Landscape

Trees cut in strips downslope, not clear-felled
Local-scale commercial forestry

The English seem unemotional … except for their passion for nature