Our last day in Slovenia was slightly curtailed by the need to get back to Llubljana but still proved productive.
Starting the trail back east we stopped off at a location where there were a series of upland meadows.
The first one was the one where we saw the most, managing to add chalkhill blue to our somewhat diminished list of blues, and Amanda's blue was also active. Something of a nuisance was a scarce copper that kept flying around without settling much. It turned out there were several of them in the area and so were hard to miss.
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The pearly heath was seen so many times we had more or less started to ignore them! A mountain green-veined white was also seen, looking even darker that the example seen yesterday. Silver-washed fritillaries were present in good numbers and the lesser marbled fritillary was also observed again.
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Throughout the trip we also saw some small heath. One omission I thought we might see but never did was the bath white.
On the bug front, these four-banded longhorn beetles seemed determined to boost their own population:
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| Four-banded Longhorn Beetles. |
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| Violet Carpenter Bee |
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| Scarlet Tiger Moth |
The yellow appearance of the thorax is actually a heavy dusting of pollen.
Then as we got back to the van, a scarlet tiger moth was literally on it, just above the wheel hub.
Also seen is the nine-spotted moth, which in the last couple of days became prolific. At our last woodland stop, it was the only thing we saw but in massive numbers.
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| Nine-spot moths |
Here they have formed a weird crucifix shape.
After that we headed for the airport through a heavy thunderstorm...
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