Theth, Albania | |
Along Rruga Gjecaj | |
18 July 2017 |
A larger open space along the Rruga Grejcaj, some meadows surrounded by pine and mixed forest. In the pine forest, I found the intruiging mycoheterotrophic plant, Monotropa hypopitys. This plants derives its sugars from the pine tree, to which it is connected by a fungus that lives in symbiosis with the pine tree, but is parasitized upon by the so-called Dutchman's pipe. |
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On one of the woodland clearings, I found a huge boulder with a remarkably chaotic texture. Fragments are neatly layered, as one would expect from sedimentary rocks; but the fragments seem randomly oriented, something one would definitely not expect from regular sedimentation processes. A possible interpretation is that the chaotic orientation of the fragments resulted from a marine slump, a sudden slide of steeply sloping marine sediments. The presence of strongly warped rocks at the nearby Qafa e Thorës lends some credence to this interpretation, as the warped structures might also have originated in a marine slump - perhaps the same? |
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Milesia crabroniformis | |
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This species had not been recorded yet for Albania, according to Fauna Europaea. |
Polistes biglumis | ||
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Gentiana cruciata | ||
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Gentiana cruciata with mines of Chromatomyia gentianae | ||
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Neotinea ustulata | Listera ovata |
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Monotropa hypopitys | |
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Teucrium montanum | Teucrium spec. | |
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Viola spec. with gall | Prunella grandiflora | |
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Volucella zonaria |
Lycaenidae |
Polyommatus damon |
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