Posts Tagged 'Piéridos'

BELIA Anthocharis euphenoides (Provence Orange Tip)

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

After Easter, we start with a new species in this blog. This is the or "Spanish flag" image taken a couple of weeks after chasing for a while.
After Holy Week, I'm going to show a new species in this blog. Today is the turn of Anthocharis BELIA euphenoides or " "picture taken 2 weeks ago Before a race Pursuing it.

BELIA Anthocharis euphenoides (Provence Orange Tip)

Camera Model: Canon EOS 7D
Exposure time [s]: 1/8
F-Number: 9.0
ISO speed ratings: 200
Date taken: 2012:03:28 14:57:20
Exposure bias value: 1/3
Flash: no
Focal length [mm]: 100L IS

Picture taken at (Lugo), a tripod.
The picture you have taken in Serra do Courel (Lugo), With A tripod.

If you are in flickr, the you can see here .
If you are in flickr, you can watch this picture here .

Thanks to Rafael Estévez for indications of where he might encontrarla.Saludos.
Regards

Another Colias crocea (Colias crocea another)

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Today it's again another .
Today I'll show you another wet Colias crocea ...

Colias crocea

Camera Model: Canon EOS 7D
Exposure time [s]: 1/10
F-Number: 11.0
ISO speed ratings: 200
Date taken: 2011:07:30 9:00:17
Exposure bias value: 1/3
Flash: no
Focal length [mm]: 100L IS

Picture taken at (Lugo), a tripod.
The picture you have taken in Serra do Courel (Lugo), With A tripod.

If you are in flickr, the you can see here .
If you are in flickr, you can watch this picture here .

Greetings.
Regards

Merry Christmas with a Colias crocea

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

After a problem with your computer (little, micro plate and burned ;) ), Then we return to the posts. And we continue with a in wet room:

Colias crocea

Camera Model: Canon EOS 7D
Exposure time [s]: 1/10
F-Number: 11.0
ISO speed ratings: 200
Date taken: 2011:07:30 9:29:40
Exposure bias value: 1/3
Flash: no
Focal length [mm]: 100L IS

Picture taken at (Lugo), a tripod. If you are in flickr, the you can see here .

Take this opportunity to wish you all Merry , to meet all your wishes with your family. A greeting.

Christmas ornament ...

Merry Christmas!!!

A greeting.

Euchloe belemia

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Bringing it rains here, we pull file:

Mossy ...
Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure time [s]: 1/15
F-Number: 9.0
ISO speed ratings: 125
Date taken: 2010:04:13 17:00:42
Exposure bias value: 0
Flash: no
Focal length [mm]: 100L IS

As you can read in the title, this is a .

Pictures taken in the Valley of Monterrei (Ourense).

A greeting.

Mossy ...

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

We pull file:

Mossy ...
Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure time [s]: 1/100
F-Number: 9.0
ISO speed ratings: 400
Date taken: 2010:04:13 13:31:50
Exposure bias value: 0
Flash: no
Focal length [mm]: 100L

As you can read in the title, it is a or , in this case a female.

Pictures taken in the Valley of Monterrei (Ourense).

A greeting.

Not a day without your butterfly: Euchloe belemia

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

After a long time (which should be the favorite phrase of this blog) continue with the sample of different species of . Today touches this piérido, or (Esper, 1800).

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Euchloe
Species: Euchloe belemia

It is quite common in the Iberian Peninsula, especially in the south, a little more rare in central and north, from 0 to 1500m. The flight is bivoltino period from February / mid-April and late April / early June. His appearance is unmistakable, with a setback atrigrado green and white. As habitat prefer dry rocky areas with flowers, among weeds, abandoned fields, orchards, ... The caterpillar feeds on Diplotaxis siifolia, Sisymbrium, Biscutella laevigata, hibernating as pupae.

Euchloe belemia
Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure time [s]: 1/50
F-Number: 8.0
ISO speed ratings: 200
Date taken: 2010:04:13 16:44:01
Exposure bias value: 0
Flash: no
Focal length [mm]: 100

Euchloe belemia
Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure time [s]: 1/125
F-Number: 9.0
ISO speed ratings: 320
Date taken: 2010:04:13 17:19:54
Exposure bias value: 0
Flash: no
Focal length [mm]: 100

Pictures taken in the Valley of Monterrei (Ourense).

A greeting.

Not a day without your butterfly: Colias croceus

Monday, November 10th, 2008

The butterfly is now one of the most common, (Fourcroy, 1785). A beautiful piérido, data:

Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Coliadinae
Tribe: Coliadini
Genus: Colias
Species: C. croceus

As I said, this species is very common, from 0 m to 2400 m. You have up to four generations per year, from March to late fall. The top is yellow orange in the male, there is a bright orange area in the rear and a black in the above. The female is a tad larger and a paler yellow. It flies mostly in meadows, loves suck the thistles and flowers of clover, for example. Their caterpillars feed on legumes, especially Vicia, Lotus, Medicago, Trifolium, Onobrychis, Coronilla, Melilotus, Hippocrepis, Astragalus.

Colias croceus

Colias croceus

These photos are from the slopes of ( ).

How to have beautiful green eyes?. A greeting.

Not a day without your butterfly: Anthocharis CARDAMINES

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

One of the more early risers, the (Linnaeus, 1758) or or dawn. Taxonomic data:

Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Pierinae
Tribe: Anthocharini
Genus: Anthocharis
Species: A. CARDAMINES

Has only one generation in spring on flowery meadows from sea level up to 1600m. The male has the upper end of the orange wings, which is unmistakable. The female does not have this orange coloring. The outer wing has a peculiar greenish color, hence its common name of moss. The small green caterpillar and feeds on plants of Cardamine families, Sinapis and Sisymbrium.

Anthocharis CARDAMINES
Camera Model: Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Exposure time [s]: 1/250
F-Number: 8.0
ISO speed ratings: 400
Date taken: 2007:04:07 13:13:47
Exposure bias value: -2 / 3
Flash: No flash
Focal length [mm]: 100.

Anthocharis CARDAMINES
Camera Model: Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Exposure time [s]: 1/1250
F-Number: 9.0
ISO speed ratings: 400
Date taken: 2007:04:07 12:55:54
Exposure bias value: -2 / 3
Flash: No flash
Focal length [mm]: 100.

This specimen was photographed in (Ourense).

A greeting.