No show flavo. It had been a bit of a long shot - the Swiss butterfly recorder, an extremely nice young man called Yannick, who actually gets
paid for swanning around in the mountains identifying butterflies, wanted to check out a grid square that hadn't been actively recorded since the 50s, and then only two species had been recorded,
flavofasciata and
gorge. We searched very thoroughly and I think I can confidently say
flavofasciata was not there. We did find about half a dozen
gorge, though, which made it worth the trip:
There were also dozens of
cacaliae, a species I usually encounter individually:
The terrain was no less strenuous than the
christi terrain but I was extra careful not to slip and further damage my shoulder!!
There is also
much more snow at relatively low altitudes this year than I have ever known before:
Guy