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Butterfly- Clouded Yellow (COLIAS HYALE) - Braşov, Ro.

Clouded Yellow - COLIAS HYALE

Family - PIERIDAE

subfamily - COLIADINAE

 

Clouded Yellow (Colias Hyale)

 

This is a local butterfly of southern Europe with tendencies to migrate northwards. It is very closely similar to the Berger's Clouded Yellow, C. alfacariensis.

HABITAT AND BIOLOGY. Meadows and forest edges up to 2,700 m a.s.l. in the forest and forest-steppe zones. Flight period: April-September in two to three generations... (In Romania, certainly, flying to November, during favourable years!!!)

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Uploaded on July 29, 2011
Taken on July 17, 2011