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      • Green-underside Blue
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      • Idas Blue
      • Large Blue
      • Mazarine Blue
      • Mountain Alcon Blue
      • Northern Brown Argus
      • Piedmont anomalous Blue
      • Provence Chalkhill Blue
      • Reverdin's Blue
      • Ripart's anomalous Blue
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      • Silver-studded Blue
      • Silvery Argus
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      • Short-tailed Blue
      • Turquoise Blue
      • Duke of Burgundy
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      • Red Admiral
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      • Bog Fritillary
      • Cardinal
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      • Glanville Fritillary
      • Grisons Fritillary
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      • Knapweed Fritillary
      • Lesser Marbled Fritillary
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Bayerischer Wald - Germany

The Bavarian Forest is a region and National Park in the eastern part of Germany directly on Germany’s border with the Czech Republic. The National Park coveres an area of 24.250 hectares and together with the neigbouring Bohemian Forest it forms the largest contiguous area of forest in Central Europe.
I visited the Dreisessel area which belongs to the Bavarian Forest in from 2014 until 2018. Due to the storm 'Kyrill' and the hungry Bark Beetle the Dreisessel and the surrounded mountains have remarkable tops....the trees are dead. The good news is that nature is recovering and a lot of new trees and plants are growing and flowering. 
In 2014 I visited the Dreisessel a few times as I noticed that on the small fields near the road a lot of (endangered) butterfly species were flying. An other big high-light was the discovery of some areas with a lot of Great Burnet and in one area I found the Dusky Large Blue. In
 2015 I could not find the diversity of butterflies which I found in 2014. Of course I visited the spot of the Dusky Large Blue but I also discovered two other spots where next to the Dusky Larg Blue also the Scarce Large Blue is living. In 2016 I visited again the spots near the Dreisessel but could not find much butterflies as most of these spots were used to store chopped down trees. The amount of butterflies was dramatically low during my visit in 2016; due to the heavy rain showers the plants and grass was that high that the farmers needed to mow their grasslands earlier....unfortunately also the wild flower meadows which I visted in 2014 and 2015.
2017 was disastrous.....I have no other words! The Dusky Large Blue spot was halved, wild meadows mown on the spots near the Dreisessel empty/butterfly-free. In two weeks time I only found TWO resting butterflies, a Large Skipper and a Sooty Copper.

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GALLERY 2017: ​
GALLERY 2016: ​
GALLERY 2015: 
GALLERY of the farm/accommodation animals:
Due to her sad life story, little pony 'June' was the attraction of the farm during my stay in 2015. At arrival she was about five weeks old but lost her mother one week earlier. In the beginning she was very very sad but fortunately she recovered! Thanks to the cats Emily and Fuchsi it felt completely like home. In 2016 June had become a 'big' pony who lives together with the other pony's in the wild meadow of the farm.
GALLERY 2014: 
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    • Hesperiidae >
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      • Grizzled Skipper
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      • Large Skipper
      • Mallow Skipper
      • Red-underwing Skipper
      • Silver-spotted Skipper
      • Small Skipper
    • Papilionidae >
      • Apollo
      • Clouded Apollo
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      • Swallowtail
      • Southern Swallowtail
      • Southern Festoon
      • Spanish Festoon
    • Pieridae >
      • Black-veined White
      • Green-veined White
      • Large White
      • Wood White
      • Small White
      • Orange-tip
      • Portuguese Dappled White
      • Provence Orange-tip
      • Western Dappled White
      • Brimstone
      • Cleopatra
      • Clouded Yellow
      • Pale Clouded Yellow
      • Berger's Clouded Yellow
      • Mountain Clouded Yellow
    • Lycaenidae >
      • Black Hairstreak
      • Brown Hairstreak
      • False Ilex Hairstreak
      • Green Hairstreak
      • Ilex Hairstreak
      • Purple Hairstreak
      • Sloe Hairstreak
      • White-letter Hairstreak
      • Large Copper
      • Purple-edged Copper
      • Purple-shot Copper
      • Scarce Copper
      • Small Copper
      • Sooty Copper
      • Violet Copper
      • Adonis Blue
      • Alcon Blue
      • Alpine Blue
      • Amanda's Blue
      • Baton Blue
      • Brown Argus
      • Chalkhill Blue
      • Chequered Blue
      • Common Blue
      • Cranberry Blue
      • Damon Blue
      • Dusky Large Blue
      • Escher's Blue
      • Geranium Argus
      • Glandon Blue
      • Green-underside Blue
      • Holly Blue
      • Idas Blue
      • Large Blue
      • Mazarine Blue
      • Mountain Alcon Blue
      • Northern Brown Argus
      • Piedmont anomalous Blue
      • Provence Chalkhill Blue
      • Reverdin's Blue
      • Ripart's anomalous Blue
      • Scarce Large Blue
      • Silver-studded Blue
      • Silvery Argus
      • Small Blue
      • Short-tailed Blue
      • Turquoise Blue
      • Duke of Burgundy
    • Nymphalidae >
      • Purple Emperor
      • Lesser Purple Emperor
      • White Admiral
      • Southern White Admiral
      • Hungarian Glider
      • Camberwell Beauty
      • Comma Butterfly
      • Large Tortoiseshell
      • Map Butterfly
      • Painted Lady
      • Peacock
      • Red Admiral
      • Small Tortoiseshell
      • Assmann's Fritillary
      • Bog Fritillary
      • Cardinal
      • Cranberry Fritillary
      • Dark Green Fritillary
      • False Heath Fritillary
      • Glanville Fritillary
      • Grisons Fritillary
      • Heath Fritillary
      • High Brown Fritillary
      • Knapweed Fritillary
      • Lesser Marbled Fritillary
      • Marbled Fritillary
      • Marsh Fritillary
      • Meadow Fritillary
      • Mountain Fritillary
      • Nickerl's Fritillary
      • Niobe Fritillary
      • Pearl-bordered Fritillary
      • Queen of Spain Fritillary
      • Shepard's Fritillary
      • Silver-washed Fritillary
      • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
      • Spotted Fritillary
      • Titania's Fritillary
      • Twin-Spot Fritillary
      • Weaver's Fritillary
    • Satyridae >
      • Alpine Heath
      • Arran Brown
      • Chestnut Heath
      • Dusky Heath
      • Gatekeeper
      • Great Banded Grayling
      • Large Ringlet
      • Large Wall Brown
      • Marbled White
      • Meadow Brown
      • Pearly Heath
      • Ringlet
      • Small Heath
      • Southern Grayling
      • Speckled Wood
      • Wall Brown
      • Woodland Grayling
      • Woodland Ringlet
    • Metamorphosises >
      • Spotted Fritillary
      • Large White
      • Red Admiral
      • Black-veined White
      • Map Butterfly
      • Swallowtail
      • Peacock
      • Orange-tip
      • Brimstone
      • Small Tortoiseshell
      • Painted Lady
      • Comma Butterfly
      • Portuguese Dappled White
      • Camberwell Beauty
      • Queen of Spain Fritillary
    • Alpine Species
    • Germany - Eifel
    • Butterflies in France
    • Butterflies NL
    • Threats & Enemies
    • UFI
  • Gallery A - Z
    • Amphibians
    • Aosta - Gran Paradiso
    • Ardeche
    • Bayerischer Wald
    • Beetles
    • Bluebell Forest
    • Caterpillars
    • Cevennes
    • Dordogne
    • Holy Love
    • Hungary
    • Insects - Others
    • Jumping Spiders
    • Kleine Beerze
    • Kleine Beerze II
    • Koebosch
    • Landschotse Heide
    • Little Owl
    • Luberon
    • Lueneburger Heide
    • Mercantour
    • Mercantour part II
    • Orchids Dream
    • Pink and Purple
    • Snakes and Reptiles
    • Spiders
    • Spring Flowers
    • Strabrechtse Heide
    • Styria
    • Teutoburger Wald
    • Toxic Tales
    • Var
  • Blog Vosges
    • Butterflies in the Vosges
    • Nature in the Vosges
    • House Gallery Vosges
  • Rust In Peace
    • Citroen
    • Ford
    • Hanomag
    • Mercedes
    • Peugeot
    • Renault
    • Simca
    • Sleeping Beauty