Sunny (partly cloudy) and warm day - temperature attacked 19 °C. I have seen a Green Tiger Beetle and these butterflies : - Peacocks - lots of - Brimstones - lots of - Wood White or Réal's Wood White - about 5 or 6 - Camberwell Beauty - maybe 4 but maybe only 2 and one of them followed me up; I have...

Today was a sunny and relatively warm day. I have snapped: - Commas I saw lots of - Peacocks I saw lots of - a worn Camberwell Beauty - and first this-year Wood White or Réal's Wood White - Leptidea sinapis or reali : http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?album_id=2002&image_id=...

Today a.m. cloudy, p.m. - clearing up but cold. I saw only one flying butterfly this afternoon, it was a Comma. But I have found a larva of Lycaena sp. and after its foodplant (wide-leaved dock: Bloody Dock - Rumex sanguineus ?) it was Large Copper - Lycaena dispar . Here are photos of the larva: ht...

Here is an interesting website of a Polish amateur about the European butterflies and moths.

Yesterday was a sunny day and I had a trip to the Kněžpole forest. But I saw only a few of Peacocks so I have snapped a solitary bee Andrena fulva.

Today is raining the whole day and earthworms are mating in my garden.

March 3rd 2010 - Sunny day, morning frost. I have some next photos of Hyphoraia aulica larvae and some videos - among other I have recorded them breakfasting grass. Butterflies: A count of Peacocks , Commas and Brimstones , 2 x Large Tortoiseshell and one Camberwell Beauty (sitting on the bar gate)....

Yesterday I have returned to the same place, found about 8 red-haired caterpillars with concipiously oblonged dark trichomas at the back and shot lots of photos and some videos. Confirmed by the expert of the Entomological Institute: This is definitively Hyphoraia aulica!

I just have obtained the message from the Czech Enthomological Institute that the second (black) caterpillar is most probably the Wood Tiger - Parasemia plantaginis and the first one (with the rusty trichomes) is most probably Hyphoraia aulica . But determination is only approximate because too few ...

I just have obtained the message from the Czech Enthomological Institute that the second (black) caterpillar is most probably the Wood Tiger - Parasemia plantaginis and the first one is most probably Hyphoraia aulica . But determination is only approximate because too few differentiation marks are p...

Thanks Matsukaze for your reaction but my first photos resemble rather Hyphoraia aulica , http://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/HyphoAulic.htm for me: http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/112534.jpg For better comparison I have submitted two pictures into my personal album and display ones below: http...

Hi,

I have two caterpilars for ID.

The first one: photo1, photo2 (Garden or Brown Tiger?)

.. and the second: photo3, photo4.

Can anybody say species of these caterpilars, please?

Thanks,

traplican

March 29th - Sand Lizards in my garden: Female photo1 , photo2 and male photo3 , photo4 . March 30: A Peacock in my garden, Peacocks and a Comma on the forest ridge road but I haven´t succeed in shotting them. So I have taken to some photos White Violets - Viola alba and I'm going to offer them for ...

http://praguemonitor.com/2010/03/05/eco-friendly-gardens-planned-czech-austrian-border-areas I am not sure if I meet all conditions because I use a decoy pesticide against the iberiam slugs and rest, my garden isn't situated in any region of concern but this article has taken me: Only gardens and o...

March 28th 2010

Today unsettled weather with a sprinkle. I have noted and shotted White-lipped Grove Snails in my garden (and the 2nd photo).

March 27 2010
Today I have found a load of the oil beetle Meloe decorus in my garden: photo1, photo2 and an imago (probably male).

March 26 2010 Having taken a time-out in my work and walked with camera across my garden I saw a peacock and recorded it to the video: [video]url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHgg3q04-I[/video] I saw and shot to photos oil beetles Meloe decorus : photo1 , photo2 , photo3 and two Sand Lizard males...

March 25th 2010 Today no butterflies yet. The wheather is cloudy and windy here. Having walked through my garden, I saw two sand lizards so I have returned for the camera and snapped one of them ( Lacerta agilis male var. erythronota ) to the photo . Then I saw an oil beetle Meloe decorus and record...

On http://www.lepidoptera.cz/index.php?s=motyli&id=176 two types of habitats are are assigned: 1) - partly forest steppes, bushy banks, light leafy woods and clearings in ones, (incl. ruderalized habitats e.g. at the quarry margins) 2) - partly wet up to peaty meadows from the flatlands to the m...

March 24, 2010 - Today I have snapped to photos: - Comma and the second one - Peacock - Small Tortoiseshell ... in the nature. There are few nectar sources yet but I found some white violets ( Viola alba ) thriving. I have overtaken more oil beetles Meloe decorus in my garden. I expect whether worse...

Guy, on your site zou write about the Chestnut Heath "This wetland species ...". I want to give notice that C. glycerion doesn´t behave as wetland species near me. Last year I have found it on grassy places (meadows and pastures), but allways near its bushy or wooded margins. It seems that...