Western Carpathians 2018

Male Wasp Spider

European Praying Mantis

Mediterranean Spotted Chafers

Female Stag Beetle

Caterpillar of Bedstraw Hawkmoth

Female Roesel's Bush-cricket

Male Beautiful Demoiselle

Female Common Darter

Old female Broad-bodied Chaser

Female Migrant Spreadwing

Female Great Green Bush-cricket

Male Large Saw-tailed Bush-cricket

Crepuscular Burnet Moth

Crepuscular Burnet Moths

Five-spot Burnet Moth

Transparent Burnet Moth

Mating pair of Nine-spotted Moths

Hummingbird Hawkmoth feeding

Male Yellowhammer singing

Fledgling Spotted Flycatcher

Male Eastern Green Lizard

Male Eastern Green Lizard

Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Rock Grayling

Grayling Butterfly

Great Banded Grayling

Marbled White

Berger's Clouded Yellow

Cryptic Wood Whites

Common Glider

Map Butterfly

Lesser Purple Emperor

Lesser Purple Emperor

Lesser Purple Emperor

Cryptic Wood White

Silver-washed Fritillary

Niobe Fritillary

False Heath Fritillary

False Heath Fritillary

Lesser Marbled Fritillary


Mating Spotted Fritillarys

Assmann's Fritillary

Marbled Fritillary

Twin-spot Fritillary

Weaver's Fritillary

Weaver's Fritillary

Spotted Fritillary

Spotted Fritillary

Male Purple-edged Copper

Male Silver-studded Blue

Female Chequered Blue

Chequered Blue

Common Swallowtail

Apollo

Brown Argus

Geranium Argus

Geranium Argus

Female Meleager's Blue

Safflower Skipper

Safflower Skipper

Large Chequered Skipper

Oberthur's Grizzled Skipper

Mallow Skipper

Grizzled Skipper
A trip with a group of friends from the Bedfordshire Natural History Society and arranged through ‘Wildlife Travel’, whose profits benefit the Wildlife Trusts in the UK. For the first four days we were accompanied by Paul Precey of Wildlife Travel and stayed in the Hotel Haj, an excellent, family run hotel in Nova Lhota, Czechia. We then transferred to a state run hotel in the Aggtalek National Park in Hungary, driving across Slovakia. During the week we visited a range of wildlife sites in the three countries, excellently led by local Czech guide Martin Hrouzek.