Belgian #biodiversity enthusiast passionate about #butterflies.
Butterfly ID help available!
See my butterfly photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/161811907@N06/collections
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Pieter Vantieghem
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New generation will be on the wing shortly now
#butterflies #brimstone
These days, you may have seen many Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) 👀🦋
But did you know they make an extraordinary journey of more than 10,000 km between Africa and Europe, across successive generations? 🌍
🔗 Download the poster here: catalanbms.org/en/recursos/
How it started - How it's going
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Calinaga is a small eastern Asian Nymphalid genus. With their small heads, hairy thorax and clumsiness on the ground they resemble Apollos a bit. And once on the wing they're just as strong & graceful gliders. Here's Calinaga sudassana.
More of my Vietnam #butterfly pics: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCVwQz
Pieter Vantieghem
Pieter Vantieghem
📄Out now 📄:
90-year trends in Switzerland show declines in butterfly and saproxylic beetle richness around the mid-20th century, linked to agricultural mechanisation. Some groups have recovered in recent decades, especially warm-adapted species. Specialised and cold-adapted species remained low.🦋🪲
Pieter Vantieghem
Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
Drino lota, a tachinid fly whose larvae are parasitoids of Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillars. A regular denizen each year of the Rosebay Willowherb at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social
🦋📉 14 butterflies disappearing from the Mediterranean landscape
#3 Black-eyed Blue (Glaucopsyche melanops)
It has a single spring generation and inhabits open scrublands, grasslands and dry orchards, from low elevations up to around 1,000 m.
🔗 More information: catalanbms.org/en/especies/lycgme/
A few summers ago, we individually reared 1200 wood tiger moth caterpillars with the aim to understand the associations and genetic basis of different traits; colour, chemical defences, behaviour, pheromones and more. The results are here!
Felix Neff
Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
Ian Andrews
Melanie Brien
🦋📉 14 butterflies disappearing from the Mediterranean landscape
#4 Western marbled white (Melanargia occitanica)
It has one spring generation. It is typical of grasslands and open scrublands, mainly in lowland areas and up to 1,000m elevation.
🔗 More information: catalanbms.org/en/species/satmoc/
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Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
Een Vlaamse vogelaar heeft een nieuwe vogelsoort ontdekt op het Indonesische eiland Babar — zonder het zelf te weten. Philippe Verbelen fotografeerde en nam geluiden op van de vogel in 2009, maar pas ...
Independent major-effect loci and limited trait associations characterise warning colour variation across sexes and life stages in the wood tiger moth (Arctia plantaginis) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.03.729769v1
