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Post by wollastoni on Jul 2, 2013 3:50:11 GMT -8
Let's come back to the Lubéron trip with some pictures. Extremely rare Polyommatus bellargus male, aberration striata  |
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Post by wollastoni on Jul 2, 2013 3:55:04 GMT -8
Polyommatus icarus, blue female + aberration arcuata Glaucopsyche alexis with no points on FW :  Polyommatus bellargus form ceronus female :  Lycaena alciphron gordius male : 
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Post by timmsyrj on Jul 3, 2013 23:02:21 GMT -8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_parks_of_FranceJust found the above link that shows a map of the National Parks of France (No collecting areas) in purple and the Regional Parks which you can collect in I believe (correct me if i'm wrong Olivier). Rich
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Post by wollastoni on Jul 4, 2013 6:56:18 GMT -8
Right, some small areas inside regional parcs can be protected but it will be clearly written.
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Post by timmsyrj on Jul 4, 2013 12:51:52 GMT -8
Yes some areas are marked as nature reserves within these regional parks so obviously no collecting there, but of the places I was looking at visiting only the col de l'iseran above val d'isere is a no collecting area, should find what I'm after further south though.
Thanks Olivier
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Jul 5, 2013 5:09:18 GMT -8
  As you like Polyommatus Olivier here's a few Icarus. Rich |
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Post by bobw on Jul 5, 2013 5:49:00 GMT -8
Are they masseyi?
Bob
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Post by timmsyrj on Jul 5, 2013 9:00:49 GMT -8
ain't masseyi silver studded blues Bob? they are common blue, the left hand photo are from areas around swanage and Purbeck the right hand photo of a male and 2 very blue females came from a colony only a few miles from me, sadly gone, it was an old opencast coal mine used as a landfill site and then left to go back to nature, it was so good for butterflies that the local council put a fence around it, called it a "nature park" planted an assortment of native trees and left it to grow wild, there's only speckled wood there now it's so dark, though I think owls fly all day.
Rich
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Post by bobw on Jul 5, 2013 13:45:11 GMT -8
ain't masseyi silver studded blues Bob? Of course they are - senior moment! Bob |
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Post by nostrodamus on May 22, 2015 23:13:57 GMT -8
Hello ,
I don't know good spots in Lorraine (I never collected there). But not far from Lorraine, go to the Forêt de Châtillon. On Google Earth, ask for Châtillon-sur-Seine : the forest is just south-east. Go there before the transformation of the Forest into a Park or a Rservation area.
What is the status now of this forest ? It's a reserve or nat. park nowdays ?
Thanks a lot!!
D.
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