Fair bear
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Fairy bear ( Callimorpha dominula ) |
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The beautiful bear ( Callimorpha dominula ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the subfamily of the bear moth (Arctiinae). The beautiful bear was butterfly of the year 2010 .
features
The slender moths reach a wingspan of 45 to 60 millimeters. They have black forewings with yellow or orange and white spots. The hind wings are red or rarely yellow and have black spots.
The caterpillars are about 40 millimeters long and are dark gray with interrupted yellow stripes and small white dots on the sides and have gray and black hair.
Occurrence
They occur all over Europe and Asia and prefer sunny to partially shaded and humid areas such as. B. brook banks, swamp and pond areas and moist forests and forest meadows.
They are very common in places in the southern German mountainous region and in lower altitudes in the Alps . They are rare in northern Germany .
Way of life
The animals are mainly nocturnal, but also fly during the day. They live a generation a year. Similar to the Russian bear , they also visit flowers to suckle nectar.
The females lay their eggs next to each other under leaves in small groups. The hatching caterpillars initially live in groups and also overwinter together between leaves, but become loners after overwintering. They pupate in a soft, white-gray web on the ground. The moths hatch in June.
The caterpillars eat leaves from a variety of herbs and shrubs such as B .:
- Raspberry ( Rubus idaeus )
- Common willow ( Salix caprea )
- Common hazel ( Corylus avellana )
- Great nettle ( Urtica dioica )
- Plantain ( Plantago spec. )
- Red honeysuckle ( Lonicera xylosteum )
- Fox's ragwort ( Senecio fuchsii )
- Meadowsweet ( Filipendula ulmaria )
- Cabbage thistle ( Cirsium oleraceum )
swell
Individual evidence
literature
- Heiko Bellmann : The new Kosmos butterfly guide. Butterflies, caterpillars and forage plants. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09330-1 .
- Hans-Josef Weidemann, Jochen Köhler: Moths. Weirdos and hawkers. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89440-128-1 .
- Günter Ebert (Ed.): The Butterflies of Baden-Württemberg Volume 5, Moths III (Sesiidae, Arctiidae, Noctuidae). Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8001-3481-0
Web links
- Lepiforum eV: Taxonomy and Photos
- www.schmetterlinge-deutschlands.de
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (English)
- Callimorpha dominula in Fauna Europaea
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