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Love of Nature, Natural History, Wildlife

Glorious Insects and Flowers of the Dolomites

In Val Sugana
At Calvello, Val di Fiemme
Val di Fiemme
Brown Argus at Redagno
Dolomite landscape at Redagno
Idas Blue at Anterivo
Stone Grasshopper above Anterivo
Alpine meadow and forest, with wood-stacks, above Anterivo. The flower-rich grass is cut annually for hay.
Burnet Moth on Scabious above Anterivo
Scotch Argus at Anterivo
Fir forest, marsh with Birches, meadow, bog pool above Anterivo
Great Green Bush-Cricket above Anterivo
Silver-washed Fritillary on Devilsbit Scabious
Alpine Green Grasshopper, Val di Fiemme
Golden-ringed Dragonfly at Calvello
Well-maintained Alpine meadow at Calvello, with hingeless gate, Hazel bushes, Birch and Fir trees
Lingon or Cowberry at Calvello: far less common than Bilberry in the Dolomites
Chalkhill Blue, male, above Carano, on legume
Vetch and Thyme on limestone beside forest path (with fir-cone), Calvello
Chalkhill Blue, male
Pine Hawk-Moth caterpillar
Large Skipper on alpine pink
Large Pine Weevil at Calvello
Abandoned flowery meadow colonised by Fir trees, Val di Fiemme
Kestrel above Val di Fiemme
Natural History

A Walk in Aston Rowant

Burnet Moth on Scabious
Dark Green Fritillary … in Motion … come on, you take the camera, and see if you can get a better shot of one … they’re very flighty. But you can certainly see the green underwing coloration, with big rounded white spots, in the third photo. The High Brown Fritillary is very similar but vanishingly rare…. mind you, this species could well be called the High Velocity Fritillary, so there.
Rattling a Yellow Rattle – yes, really, play the video and listen! The plant is important in flowery meadows, as it parasitises the tougher and taller grasses, weakening them and letting in the smaller and prettier wild flowers. An old farmers’ name for it is accordingly “Poverty”: guess they preferred money to beauty and diversity in them there days.
A gloriously shiny and iridescent green leaf beetle, Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis, on Hawkweed
Chiltern Gentian, probably
Pyramidal Orchid
Dark Mullein