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| ...miral is active from June to August. It produces 1 new generation a year and lays its eggs on the food plants of its larvae - honeysuckle and snowberry. The larvae overwinter in a piece of leaf formed into a kind of bag that serves as a hideout. The caterpillars emerge again in the spring and pupate in early June. | | |
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| The common blue is found at nearly all altitudes and in almost all biotopes. They are active from May to October and produce 2 - 3 new generations per year. Their caterpillars feed on clover, restharrow and broom. They overwinter. | | |
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| ...dark grey and have a dark marking. In the mid-wing area is a bright marking shaped like a bent "Y". The hindwings are greyish-brown with dark edges. The silver Y has a very long proboscis and can suck nectar out from deep flower calyx. The caterpillars, which are up to 25 mm in length, are light green and have a pattern of fine bright lines on their back. | | |
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| The silver Y is found almost everywhere, but prefers farmland and gardens. The adult moths eat nectar from thistles, phlox and petunias. The silver Y produces several (overlapping) generations a year. The caterpillars, which feed on clover and various vegetables, overwinter in a kind of cocoon. | | |
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| The red admiral is found in almost every environment. It feeds on the nectar of Eupatorium or ivy blossoms and on the juices of fallen fruits. Red admiral caterpillars are black and yellow. They feed exclusively on large nettles and are solitary, living on leaves joined together with their silk. The red admiral is a migrant species and flies to Northern Europe in May. It returns to Southern Europe in October for t... | | |
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| ...body. When at rest, plume moths resemble crane flies. Plume moths feed on different types of Convolvulaceae.
They can be encountered beside small paths and in areas with human settlements. Plume moths are active from May to September. Plume moth caterpillars have 16 feet and feed on the leaves and blossoms of herbaceous plants. They also live in the pith of various woody plants. | | |
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| The caterpillars are about 30 mm in length. They are black with fine white spots. They have two broken yellow lines on their sides, and their body is purplish-brown in colour. The back and sides are spiny. Small tortoiseshell butterflies drink nectar from a wide ran... | | |
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| ...late summer or early autumn on the upper surface of plant leaves. The eggs overwinter there. The larvae hatch in the spring. They develop in 5 stages, each finishing with a moult. In summer, the adult bugs of the new generation appear. These feed on caterpillars, beetle larvae, other bugs or aphids. | | |
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| ...in meadows on their search for the shy and inconspicuous females. Oviposition of the fertilized females takes place separately (in rarer cases in small groups) do you mean that the eggs are usually laid singly on the preferred food plants of the caterpillars, such as the cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis), bittercress (Cardamine amara), garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) and many different Brassicaceae (in former times: Cruciferae). From the latter the female orange tip clearly prefer dame’s rock... | | |
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| Brush-footed butterflies reach wingspans of 10 - 100 mm. The upper surface of their wings is usually colourful, while the undersides are rather inconspicuous. Their proboscis is well developed and their antennae are club-shaped. The caterpillars of Nymphalidae have thread-like appendages or ones resembling thorns. Some are hairy and some are hairless. | | |
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