Muthmannsdorf 12.7.2018

Short walk into the forest between Dreistetten and Muthmannsdorf and to the sunflower fields. As it has rained a lot recently, I hope to find mushrooms, but wasn´t successful.

However, I saw butterflies in abundance. This Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) is rather battered.

Silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia)

Silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia)

A clearing. Neophytic plants like bobby´s tops can look nice.

This Queen of Spain fritillary (Argynnis lathonia) disgusts the neophyts and prefers the thistles.

Bobby´s tops (Impatiens glandulifera).

Silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia)

Silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia)

Hohe Wand

Hohe Wand

Inside the forest there are different epipactis orchids, I cannot identify them with certainty.

Thsi could be Müller´s Stendelwurz (Epipactis muelleri)

Broad leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine)

Suppose this is another Queen of Spain fritillary (Argynnis lathonia)

I have to stop at the drive back to see the sunflower fields near Muthmannsdorf.

Hohe Wand in the background, only a very small part of Schneeberg can be seen to its left.

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