Stage, early August 2025 in GermanyGermanyGermany

  • early August: Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa)
    GermanyGermanyGermanyGermany /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_edc401.png rare, aestivating
    Brandenburg /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Berlin /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Bremen /PicturesNA/Misc/minus_2f2f2f.png extinct
    Baden-Württemberg /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Bavaria /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Hesse /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_ce0705.png very rare, aestivating
    Hamburg /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Lower Saxony /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    North Rhine-Westphalia /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_ce0705.png very rare, aestivating
    Rhineland-Palatinate /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_edc401.png rare, aestivating
    Schleswig-Holstein /PicturesNA/Misc/check_edc401.png rare
    Saarland /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Saxony /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Saxony Anhalt /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
    Thuringia /PicturesNA/Misc/umbrella_16_16_008d03.png common, aestivating
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    Butterfly (aestivating)

Chrysalis of a male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) shortly before hatching

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Chrysalis of a male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) shortly before hatching

Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines)Orange TipAnthocharis cardamines (Linnaeus, 1758)anthocharis cardamineaOrange Tip

Chrysalis of a male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) shortly before hatching

[Breeding image; Male]

In spring 2018, I took a few Cuckoo Flowers (Cardamine pratensis) with Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) eggs attached to them home and continued breeding them. In the spring of the following year, the butterflies hatched from the chrysalises that had overwintered outdoors: first the males.

Photograph: Ingo DanielsIngo Daniels; Bonn, /PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermanyBonn, /PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermany/PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermany (20. March 2019, 05:01 PM)

Breeding: Ingo DanielsIngo Daniels

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