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
    /PicturesNA/ButterflyLogos/Nymphalis_antiopa_logo_36_26.png
    Butterfly (aestivating)

This Ichneumon wasp (Ichneumonidae) hatched from a caterpillar of a Large White (Pieris brassicae), which I took into the house as a tiny caterpillar for rearing.

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This Ichneumon wasp (Ichneumonidae) hatched from a caterpillar of a Large White (Pieris brassicae), which I took into the house as a tiny caterpillar for rearing.

This Ichneumon wasp (Ichneumonidae) hatched from a caterpillar of a Large White (Pieris brassicae), which I took into the house as a tiny caterpillar for rearing.

I had taken the newly hatched caterpillar of a Large White (Pieris brassicae) from a nasturtium standing in front of my house. The half-grown caterpillar suddenly stopped feeding and faded away. It soon died. However, the abdomen subsequently inflated in the withering body and about a week later the Ichneumon wasp (Ichneumonidae) emerged from the dead caterpillar body.

Photograph: Ingo DanielsIngo Daniels; Bonn, /PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermanyBonn, /PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermany/PicturesNA/Flags/de.pngGermany (18. August 2020)

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