Which butterfly or insect is this?
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| zlatica29. 03. 2020 16:46:22 |
As our doors to nature are increasingly closing in these times of coronavirus through ever new measures, I was thinking and decided to try to bring the part of nature that is very rarely presented here among you in the following way. I'm opening a new section, in which those who, in the time when nature comes alive, on the paths of their visits to mountains, rivers, pastures, landscape parks... encounter various insects that charm us in their own way or arouse our curiosity due to certain peculiarities, can find themselves.
Butterflies primarily belong here, as well as other species of insects.
I will gradually, over a certain time period, list photographs of those insects that I collected in the last few years, since previously I primarily dealt only with little flowers.
I invite you to join me with your findings, as the time for this living part of nature is just now arriving this year and I strongly hope that sooner or later we will be given the opportunity and chance for free wandering in nature.
With posting insect photos we will learn with our common strength, we'll also guess a lot about which insect it is, we will surely sometimes err in lay identification, but in any case we can open horizons of knowledge and acquaintance of this piece of nature to each other. If there happens to be some expert on this topic among you, I especially invite him or her to collaborate in this new thread.
Let's start.... 
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| ločanka29. 03. 2020 21:58:59 |
For me the glider is something special, picture 4
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| SamoK29. 03. 2020 23:06:39 |
Glider?
Isn't it a swallowtail?
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| zlatica30. 03. 2020 09:56:26 |
SamoK, true, at a quick glance glider and swallowtail look similar, as they come from the same swallowtail family. The glider unlike the swallowtail is paler yellow, it's our largest butterfly, on straw-yellow wings it has black transverse bands (swallowtail has a pattern of black spots and lines), which are visible on the last picture, even more on the upper picture 4. and towards the tip of the outer wings unlike swallowtail it has black-bordered blue spots and longer tail-like extension than swallowtail and above it a blue eye with crescent orange rim, which is also visible from the pictures. Nice that you chimed in.
Adding a few pics of other butterflies.... cheers
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| ločanka30. 03. 2020 10:18:51 |
zlatica, look I have another pic of a gorgeous butterfly, I take it for glider
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| zlatica30. 03. 2020 10:22:44 |
Bravo, ločanka, I didn't see it in between because I was uploading the above pictures. You caught it excellently! This is a real glider! I kind of thought you'd find something more in your archives and surely some other visitors of these pages too. 
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| ločanka30. 03. 2020 10:24:40 |
zlatica, everything beautiful attracts me.
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| SamoK30. 03. 2020 10:54:30 |
zlatica, thanks for the explanation. One can always learn something.
In my youth I dealt a lot with butterflies, with the swallowtail I had as a child even unique luck that the caterpillar I locked in a jar pupated the next day and I watched how the butterfly crawled out and spread and dried its wings, so that it could then fly away.
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| zlatica30. 03. 2020 17:24:35 |
SamoK, your experience is something completely special and you rarely experience something like that, that's why you don't forget it.
Zvončica, your butterfly is a nice specimen of the Painted Lady.
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| zvončica31. 03. 2020 08:56:56 |
Zlatica, thanks. You know, I compared my butterfly on the knapweed with yours in picture 4 from 30.3. and it seemed to me that it might be the small meadow brown:
I'm really not a butterfly expert, next time when mentioning some butterfly I'll put a question mark. Regards
Georgia, it's really nice!
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| zvončica31. 03. 2020 09:22:48 |
Last year on Šavnik I stumbled upon this little beetle that shone in beautiful colors in the sun - Grinta's leaf beetle. Regards
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| zlatica31. 03. 2020 13:02:29 |
georgia, the alpine grasshopper really isn't just anything, since it's rare and therefore protected. Nice that you shared it with us!
Grinta's leaf beetle has such a beautiful iridescent green-blue color right at the wing junction, right Zvončica?
And since we're already on grasshoppers, let me introduce the large spruce longhorn beetle (sawyer), which crossed my path at sv. Višarje.
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| Tadej31. 03. 2020 15:33:14 |
Along the path to Loška stena...
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| zlatica31. 03. 2020 17:25:53 |
Tadej, how many day peacocks in a bunch!! Super! The plant they're feeding nectar from is horse mane and it's especially attractive to butterflies..
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| rok.si31. 03. 2020 18:17:01 |
But small snout moths have "attacked" me in the hills several times already, I think it's the spring brown. Funny feeling when it tickles the skin with its proboscis. Obviously they really like the salt in sweat, which (in summer) us hill walkers don't lack
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| zlatica31. 03. 2020 21:01:24 |
Haha, that's an event! Yes, really some butterflies are tempted by moist flesh and then suck up that moisture. In the second picture the butterfly's color is more visible and it really looks like spring brown. I had a similar encounter myself, when the admiral butterfly just wouldn't fly off my hand...
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| Deniss1. 04. 2020 12:30:41 |
Repičin White? Thirst at Dupelje Lake.
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