4/4 Hike & Run in the mountains in #Austria

On the descent into the valley, I saw a Spanish flag / Jersey tiger (Euplagia quadripunctaria)! It is poisonous to birds, and when threatened, it shows it with its colorful hind wings.

The finale: swimming in an old-fashioned outdoor pool from 1928!

#Trailrunning #Hiking #RunnersOfMastodon #Running #Swimming #Rax #Butterfly #SpanishFlag #JerseyTiger #EuplagiaQuadripunctaria #Arctiinae #Schmetterling #SpanischeFlagge #RussischerBär #Bärenspinner

Das ungiftige Weißfleck-Widderchen (Amata phegea) sieht dem giftigen Veränderlichen Widderchen (Zygaena ephialtes) sehr ähnlich & wird deshalb von Vögeln nicht gefressen.

#Schmetterlinge #artenvielfalt #lepidoptera #insects #insekten #Arctiinae #natur #nature #Slovenija #Mimikry

Clouded Buff, Diacrisia sannio Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.9 1/80 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/25/2012 #mothsMatter #moths #Erebidae #Lepidoptera #Arctiinae #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands
Jersey Tiger Moth, Euplagia quadripunctaria Canon 5D3 Sigma 105 2.8 f/7,1 1/320 iso:160 Srbsko, Czech Republic 7/28/2022 #mothsMatter #Erebidae #Arctiinae #Noctuidae #lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #Macro #grasslands

From my Christmas walk in High Park: I was looking at these crusty old _Daldinia_(?) and idly wondered "what's under that loose bark?" A "woolly bear", the caterpillar of the Isabella tiger moth (_Pyrrharctia isabella_).

#mushtodon #sporespondence #fungi #bugstodon #moths #caterpillars #Lepidoptera #Erebidae #Arctiinae

Jersey Tiger Moth, Euplagia quadripunctaria Canon 5D3 Sigma 105 2.8 f/7.1 1/220 iso: 125 Srbsko, Czech Republic 7/28/2022 #mothsMatter #moths #Erebidae #Arctiinae #lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #macro #Butterflies #SaveButterflies #insects #Invertebrates #Macro #grasslands
Nine-spot Sphinx, Amata phegea Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/80 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 7/7/2013 #Mothsmatter #moths #erebidae #Arctiinae #Lepidotera #insects #invertebrates #macro #Grasslands #canon

Each night I run an automated #insect light here in Canberra using a #RaspberryPi, Logitech BRIO #webcam, UV LEDs and #OpenCV image segmentation. Some example images from the night of 3/4 November: Porela delineata (#Lasiocampidae), Stenoptilia zophodactylus (#Pterophoridae), Thallarcha partita (#Erebidae, #Arctiinae) and Exaireta spinigera (#Stratiomyidae).

My hope is to build a large enough set of identified images to attempt to train a #model and move towards automated #timeseries capture.