Gesäuse — Report 2006, Gesäuse National Park Lepidoptera

Of this characteristic, the year 2006 was extremely poor for the butterflies, except for a short period in July, where 220 species could be registered as a peak in one night. Spring started very late. The heat period in July gave m it almost every day thunderstorms in the evening almost no way for efficient observation. August was far too cold and rainy, which meant that the autumn animals could not experience an orderly development and the few experienced in far too warm and extremely dry September and October also had considerable problems in l maginal state. Only the rains at the end of October offered species-appropriate flight conditions in the number of species small late autumn launches. Striking was the lmaginal state long into autumn of several summer animals, which could still be found up to 50 or more days after their flight time focus. To close the state of the wings, the animals mostly hatched were not late, but very old animals with very low activity due to weather conditions.