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4 Common yellow scorpion (Buthus occitanus) -
4 Colourful caterpillar, Costa Rica -
4 Violet copper (Lycanea helle) ♀ -
4 Marbled Fritillary (Brenthis daphne) -
![Pearly Heath (Coenonympha arcania) To quote Wikipedia: “[These butterflies] usually sit in sunny spots with their wings closed. To do this, they point the undersides of their wings directly to the sun and thus sit very obliquely.”
That describes the circumstances of this picture perfectly. Coenonympha arcania,Geotagged,Italy,Pearly Heath,Summer](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/8383/163471_small.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=zpbQ6cq1C9X8VIW639VpnLWFmvE%3D)
4 Pearly Heath (Coenonympha arcania) -
4 Chalk Burnet (Zygaena fausta) -
4 Canary speckled wood (Pararge xiphioides) -
3 A pretty young Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) -
3 Speckled Yellow (Pseudopanthera macularia) -
3 A copula of Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) -
3 Knapweed Fritillary (Melitaea phoebe) -
2 Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus), Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador -
3 Alpine Heath (Coenonympha gardetta) -
4 Caught in the act -
4 Filament bearer caterpillar from Caribbean Costa Rica (Nematocampa spec.) -
4 “Misleading Stone Grasshopper” (Ocnerodes fallaciosus) -
3 Two resting Damon blue butterflies (Polyommatus damon) -
2 Escher's blue (Polyommatus escheri) ♀ -
3 Female Large Wall Brown (Lasiommata maera) -
4 Papilio machaon (EN: Old World swallowtail, DE: Schwalbenschwanz) -
3 Colourful fly from the French Alps -
3 Wolf spider (?), Costa Rica -
3 Viperine Snake (Natrix maura) -
2 Black-veined white (Aporia crataegi)
pysailor
I’m a hobby nature enthusiast from Munich. Married to a biologist specialised in European butterflies, so I'm a bit biased in that direction :-) Absolutely fascinated by tropical habitats (Costa Rica & Ecuador so far).
Real name is Wolfgang Thomas.
48 y/o MaleJoined 1-26-23
