Admiral (Vanessa Atalanta)

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Pakor, 13.08.2006 5:21

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From the photo gallery Pavel Korzunovich

Vanessa Atalanta is one of the most beautiful diurnal butterflies of central Europe, found also in North America and South Asia, and belongs together with the wren and polychrome, peacock's eye and sturgeon vanessa to the category of anguloptera, which are characterized by their shaggy forelegs, angularly carved outer edges of the wings, and caterpillars covered with six rows of sharp points. branched spines, and larvae, usually bright golden in color, with a snout-shaped elevation on the back and hanging on the tip of the tail. A. dark brown in color, with a curved red median ligament, white front spots and a blue border on the front wings, while the hind wings are bordered by a fiery red stripe with blue eyes on the inner the edge. The short, mostly brown or black caterpillar has yellow branched spines and a yellow lateral line, which makes it very different from the peacock's eye caterpillar, with which it lives on nettles. The butterfly flies out in the late summer months, with the female wintering to lay her eggs in the spring.

Description from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedia