Natural History Photographs


Valle d'Aosta, Italy
Prarayer
29 July 2018
After the car troubles had been temporarily resolved - i.e., we had a substitute car for the time being - this was the first opportunity to reach further away destinations. I chose Prarayer since it looked we could get high up by car. When we arrived, Sunday morning, it turned out that this destination was rather crouded at the end of the road (at the beginning of the artificial lake). We had to walk all the way along the lake before I got the opportunity to get somewhat higher up the mountains. Though not an ideal situation, I found some typical alpine flowers and butetrflies, so I was happy to be 'back in business,' so to speak.


Biscutella laevigata


Zygaena spec.


Scutellaria alpina


Bupleurum ranunculoides


Plebejus idas Podarcis muralis


Aricia artaxerxes


Campanula barbata


Centaurea uniflora


Parnassia
palustris

Hyles gallii


Daphne mezereum


Erebia montana


Erebia alberganus


Erebia melampus Erebia aethiops Erebia arvernensis


Lycaena virgaureae Pyrgus spec.


unidentified
Polyommatini

Polyommatus dolus
P. dolus &
A. arxtaxerxes


Lobothallia spec.


Lilium martagon


Coenonympha gardetta Sedum anacampseros


Gentiana campestris


Sempervivum arachnoideum