{"id":9163,"date":"2025-08-11T20:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?page_id=9163"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:56:23","slug":"wildlife-of-the-dolomites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wildlife-of-the-dolomites\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife of the Dolomites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pale di San Martino mountains, with alpine meadows and mixed Spruce, Fir, Larch and Pine forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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A mass of Narrow-Bordered Five-Spot Burnet Moths on Knapweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Beetles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Red Pine Longhorn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Black-striped Longhorn Beetle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted Longhorn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Large Pine Weevil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bee-eating Beetle, Trichodes apiarius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Butterflies and Moths<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Queen of Spain Fritillary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Knapweed
Knapweed Fritillary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Silver-Washed Fritillary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Dark
Dark Green Fritillary at 2000 metres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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False Heath Fritillary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Large Skipper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Small Skipper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Silver-Studded Blue, Plebejus argus ssp aegidon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chalkhill Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mazarine Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Brown Argus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Small
Small Copper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Wood
Wood White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scotch Argus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Meadow Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marbled White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Large Wall Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Purple Emperor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sulphur Knapweed moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Heath moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gypsy Moth Caterpillar parasitised by Braconid Wasps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lesser Cream Wave moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PIne Hawkmoth caterpillar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Narrow-bordered 5-spot Burnet Moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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9-spotted moth, Stenurella bifasciata<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bush-crickets and Grasshoppers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\"Dark
Dark Bush-Cricket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great Green Bush-Cricket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Green Grasshopper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Green Mountain Grasshopper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stone Grasshopper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dragonflies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Golden-Ringed Dragonfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Male Common Darter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bees and Wasps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Halictus scabiosae mining bee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Saxon Wasp (Dolichovespula saxonica)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Brown-Banded Carder Bee, Bombus pascuorum, with Giant Forest Ant, Camponotus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nest of Paper Wasp, Polistes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other insects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Orange-backed Tachinid Fly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hoverfly on Yarrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mediterranean Milkweed Bug<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Monocots (grasses, orchids, lilies, …)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Greater quaking-grass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Snowy
Snowy Woodrush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Keeled Garlic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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False Hellebore, Veratrum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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St Bernard’s Lily, Anthericum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Martagon Lily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Spotted Orchid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heath Spotted-orchid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dark-red Helleborine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dicots (other flowers)<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Rowan or Mountain Ash by a Dolomites meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Squinancywort, Asperula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creeping Bellflower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fringed Pink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cow-wheat, a hemiparasite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alpine Butterbur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Purple Broomrape, parasitic on Yarrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bladder Campion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Harebells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow Rattle, parasitic on grasses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Clary Sage, in an alpine meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sticky Clary (Salvia glutinosa), Val Sugana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grassy Stitchwort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Purple Lettuce, Prenanthes purpurea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Baneberry, Actaea spicata<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Greater Knapweed <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alpine Adenostyles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hairy Alpenrose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Betony-leaved
Betony-leaved Rampion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Goat’s Beard, Aruncus vulgaris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Columbine, Aquilegia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hoary Plantain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Northern Wolfsbane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Monkshood, Wolfsbane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Willow Gentian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted Gentian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grass of Parnassus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow Mountain Saxifrage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Herb-Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Viper’s Bugloss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Dotted
Dotted Loosestrife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sweet Cicely<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Wild
Wild Angelica <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Spiny
Spiny Restharrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lingon or Cowberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Red
Red Elderberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Watermelon
Watermelon Berry, Streptopus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wayfaring Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whitebeam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Serviceberry, Amelanchier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Sweet
Large-flowered Self-heal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Daisy
Daisy Fleabane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Goldenrod<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Whitish
Whitish Hawkweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sticky Thistle, Cirsium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Globe
Globe Thistle, Echinops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Butterwort\"
Butterwort, insectivorous<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Mountain
Mountain Avens in fruit <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Field
Field Mouse-ear at 2200 metres <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Chicory\"
Chicory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Yellow
Yellow Woundwort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Devil's-bit
Devil’s-bit Scabious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Field
Field Pansy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rosebay Willowherb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alpine Bistort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Basil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Thyme
Thyme <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Small
Small balsam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cowslip
Cowslip in fruit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Ladies
Ladies Bedstraw <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Raspberry
Raspberry <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Strawberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Meadow
Meadow Cranesbill <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great Mullein in a mountain meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mosses and Ferns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Haircap Moss, Polytrichum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Polypody Fern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wall Rue Spleenwort, Asplenium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fungi<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Russula, a Brittlegill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Dyer's
Dyer’s Mazegill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Milkcap
Lactarius, a Milkcap, on a wooded hillside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Suillus grevillei, Larch Bolete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lichens<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dog Lichen, Peltigera canina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parmelia-type leafy lichens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cladonia lichen, large patch on tree stump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cup
Cladonia cf fimbriata, Cup Lichen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Rhizocarpon
Rhizocarpon geographicum on boulder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Umbilicaria
Umbilicaria cylindrica on boulder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evernia cf prunastri, Usnea cf filipendula (beard lichen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Usnea florida, Flowery Beard Lichen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other animals<\/h3>\n\n\n
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\"Common
Common Wall Lizard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Black Redstart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roman Snail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n
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Kestrel in the mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A Human Landscape<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Trees cut in strips downslope, not clear-felled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Local-scale commercial forestry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n

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\"Flowery
Flowery Meadow at 2200 metres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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