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)

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) at Gamsberg-Pass in Namibia

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Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) at Gamsberg-Pass in Namibia

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)Painted LadyVanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)Cynthia carduiCosmopolitanPainted Lady

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) at Gamsberg-Pass in Namibia

While travelling along the Gamsberg Pass, I only saw a few butterflies here and there in the otherwise rather barren landscape. But then there were some flowering plants next to the road whose few flowers were full of sucking butterflies. The only butterfly I knew of from Europe was the Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) I photographed.

Photograph: Ingo DanielsIngo Daniels; Gamsberg, Khomas, /PicturesNA/Flags/NA.pngNamibiaGamsberg, Khomas, /PicturesNA/Flags/NA.pngNamibiaKhomas, /PicturesNA/Flags/NA.pngNamibia/PicturesNA/Flags/NA.pngNamibia (5. April 2016, 05:02 PM)

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