Thanks Mikhail, that's it! I have dried the balm on the loft where is stored the hay for the rabbits and I remember that some moth flew from the hay out.

Last year on May I have gathered common balm ( Melissa officinalis ) in my garden, dried one and stored leaves into a glass. This year on April 30th I have found that this glass had changed into an unmeant insectary: It contained about 10 moth. I have released them and taken one of them to this phot...

http://traplican.rajce.idnes.cz/Botanik ... 29_015.jpg is definitely Viola alba. http://traplican.rajce.idnes.cz/Botanik ... 9_024d.jpg may be a hybrid Viola x pluricalis of Viola alba with Viola odorata. Determined by Karel Fajmon.

Oil beetles are not doing too well over here, either. This article appeared on the BBC website today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9434000/9434963.stm There used be 23 species of oil beetles in the Czech Republic but 10 of them is extinct. Occurence of Meloe (Micromeloe) decorus...

I wouldn't like to lost face but I thing I just have found Viola alba directly inside our village, about 150 m from our house and about 30 m from house of our former mayor, in this place . Here is photo of this place . The confusion with Viola suavis is possible but when I compare stipulae of my pla...

Today I have watched oil beetles Meloe decorus in my garden: One of them ate tinder from old plum-tree stump: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfgjOOzbeoc[/video] I have watched and taken to the photo (and recorded to the video, but not processed yet) a pair of Meloe decorus matting and a femal...

Spring is here! Meloe decorus watched in my garden again! I just have watched two endangered oil beetles Meloe decorus in my garden and recorded them to the video: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCKopJP18NY[/video] Later I have watched more Commas on this place and taken one of them to some p...

Today I have taken a look to one of places where I found Viola alba last year. Here I have taken a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker . Viola alba begins to bloom and I have create a special album for this plant . Before last year was critically endangered Viola alba known from 2 places of the Czech Republic...

It was sunny midday today and I have watched first this year buterflies: Some nymphalid flew over my garden (but hasn't sat so I couldn't determine one) and behind the cellar window flapped a Peacock. I have released one to the courtyard and taken it to the photo . There were lots of firebugs everyw...

The first this year Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa violacea grubbing through slots in the courtyard of our house and invasive Western Conifer Seed Bug - Leptoglossus occidentalis before the entry into our house.

It seems for me that this year carnival ball was dedicated mainly to White-Carpathian folklore (or folklore from southern part of Moravian - Slovak border). But note this Slovak folk song , the same in the interpretation of Slovak folklore band is here (refers to the Slovak municipality Heľpa ). Com...

Last weekend was carnival (fašank) in Traplice and I was asked by organizers for photografing and recording. First we have walked across the willage and invited to the evening ball. Procession was composed of masks with reproduced music on the cart and a group of boys with the sabres (mostly wood bu...

Goldcrest and Sparrowhawk

Yestarday I have taken a goldcrest in the frontyard of our house through the window of my study and today a sparrowhawk in our neighbour's backyard from the window of our bedroom.

Here are furher pictures: http://kvmuz.cz/public/data/event/expolarge-921-obr-1.jpg http://media.rozhlas.cz/_obrazek/2076967--Obrazek--1-173x200p0.jpeg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Lednacek_bible.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Lednak1.jpg http://commons....

After English Wikipedia " The etymology of kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) is obscure; the term comes from king's fisher, but why that name was applied is not known ". I propose a hypothesis: Wife of king Richard II, Ann of Bohemia (1366 - 1394), was a daughter of Charles IV, the emperor of the...

Greylag geese!
About an hour ago I watched an aproximately 100-member swarm of graylag geese drawing from the south to the north.

I have some photos of Dusky Large Blue and Scarce Large Blue on ARKive now.

... or Olindia schumacherana or Epiblema cirsiana / E. scutulana / E. sticticana.

Merry Christmas and lots of magnificent butterflies in the new year to all

I just have assemled and posted to Youtube slideshows of butterflies, burnets, moths and their caterpillars photos which I had taken during this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZhFPj7F6zc[/video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3He0p_TiKc[/video]

15th November 2010 - I just have snapped a Small White on the prone road border before the school in Traplice ... ... and some snail with the hirsute shell in our garden ( Petasina sp. ?). 16th November 2010 - Today I have found another Wood Tiger caterpillar in different place of our garden and ta...