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Heckenbraunelle auf ihrer Singwarte

And as a bonus, one more moth from the Königstuhl, albeit a camera-shy one that made me work for my poor pictures 🙄

It’s the famous Silver Y (Autographa gamma; 🇩🇪 Gammaeule), fairly obviously named in all three languages for the prominent white markings on its wings.

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To make up for my earlier boo-boo, mislabelling the Scarlet Tiger as a butterfly rather than a moth 😳, here are three more (definitely) moths seen on the Königstuhl today.

First, a red-necked footman (Atolmis rubricollis; 🇩🇪 Rotkragen-Flechtenbärchen).

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Have been quiet on the arthropod photography front for a few days, partly due to the intense heat 🥵, but also thanks to a conference at @mpi_astro this week..

But from the Königstuhl today, here's a beautiful butterfly [edit] moth! to keep things going: it's a scarlet tiger (Callimorpha dominula), nicely named Schönbär in German 🙂

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Thunder & lightning aside, I'm still on the lookout for new garden friends, even in the heat.

This small & fidgety beetle seems likely to be in genus Bruchus, sometimes incorrectly called weevils.

Best guess is that it's B. affinis (🇩🇪 Dunkler Samenkäfer), but B. pisorum or B. rufimanus are also possible.

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Only had moments in the garden this evening before the Sun slipped below the far side of the valley.

This little butterfly was enjoying the last of the sunshine too – it's genus Thymelicus, but given this angle on the antennae, I can't tell if it's T. lineola (Essex skipper) or T. sylvestris (small skipper) 🤷‍♂️

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Job Number One on this hot day – finding a shady place to conduct your business.

I'm with this triangle crab spider (Ebrechtella triscupidata; 🇩🇪 Dreieck-Krabbenspinne) & will be staying out of the sunshine until things cool down later 👍

Half an hour outside just now was about twenty nine minutes too long 🥵

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