Subject: C. cardui & V. atalanta in DK

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:39:11 METDST

Hi LEPS-Netters!

It was indeed very helpful to read the news from Belgium concerning migrating
Cynthia cardui's so that we could inform people to watch out for them.

Here are the observations

Cynthia cardui:
1/6: 1 Skjern Enge (W Jutland)
2/6: 1 Mols (E Jutland), 5 Herning (W Jutland)
3/6: 8 Herning (W Jutland)
4/6: 4 -> N Aarhus (E Jutland)
6/6: 3 -> N Skagen (N tip of Jutland)
7/6: 15 -> N Skagen

Vanessa atalanta:
3/6: 3 Herning - 2 fresh'n black & 1 very worn....
6/6: 1 -> N Skagen (fresh specimen migrating N over Skagerrak!)

In Skagen also some movements of Pieris sp. (some hundreds), but the most
spectacular sight was a huge migration of ladybirds. The sky was actually
moving and we estimated that 10000 were passing a 100 meter front in one
minute!!!! Skagen has also reported some 50 antiopa's but none on direct
migration.

Kind regards
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Morten D.D. Hansen
Dept. of Zoology
Institute for Biological Sciences
University of Aarhus
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
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