Early in the morning we took a boat transfer across the lake Torneträsk. We walked around there for about 10 hours. We found some very nice butterflies among them thore. Another year when we go to the northern side we’ll climb up above the tree line. Up there live some very beautiful butterflies.
We walked to Kratersjön. There were lots of butterflies on their wings, glandon, nastes, aquilonaris. We met Nick and Pen up in the mountains. In the afternoon we tried our pheromones and got some culiciformis (no polaris) and one parilis. After that we went home to our youthhostel for dinner.
Yesterday it was a rainy and cold morning. In the afternoon the sun came out. We went out to try our pheromones again. Nick and Pen came with us.
Today it has been a very nice day, sunny and hot. Nick, Pen, Anders and I decided to go for a long walk up in the mountains. There were lots of butterflies. Among others norna, nastes, eunomia, freija, aquilonaris, pandrose, exulans, optilete and idas. Anders got a new species, secedens. We walked about 20 kilometres.
Anders used his new pheromones and got 1 culiciformis and 1 parilis. Another sunny day here.
June 25 But as it was a cloudy and windy day we didn’t find any. As we celebrated 38 years anniversary we had dinner at a restaurant.
June 26 This morning Anders, Nick and Daniel (other butterfly collectors) decided to climb in the mountains looking for butterflies. I stayed on the ground :) Now we have been sleeping 3 nights in the car and 2 nights in the tent. I decided to find somewhere else to sleep. I found a very nice hostel. Now I have moved our things to the hostel. I’m sure Anders will be surprised when he comes back.
This morning we had breakfast at a hotel. Sometimes it’s nice to be a bit lazy :) After another 200 kilometres we arrived to Abisko. This time of year the sun is shining day and night. Now we have set up the ten. The sun is shining and everything is just great.
June 21st After a 600 kilometres drive we’re in Sundsvall. Tomorrow we will look for butterflies at Alnö an island near Sundsvall.
June 22nd After a good night’s sleep in the car, we had breakfast in the sunshine. Then we watched a butterfly named mnemosyne. Now we’re in Östersund, today we only drove about 200 kilometres.
June 23rd Many hours in the car today. We drove 800 kilometres. Now we’re in Gällivare, here we’ll stay tonight.
We had a nice time talking butterflies. Today we went on a trip in the neighbourhood, just to show our nice area.
Nick och Pen från Bristol, England besökte oss på deras väg mot Abisko. Alltid kul att prata fjärilar. Idag åkte vi en tur i omgivningarna för att visa att även Västergötland är sevärt.
Vi försökte locka till oss culiciformis men idag hade vi ingen tur.
Anders och jag har varit i Munkhyttan, inbjudna av Claes Eliasson, en av Sveriges duktigaste på dagfjärilar. Det hade samlats många entomologer, så jag hade tur att få flera nya ex.
Claes presenterade idag sin bok om Dagfjärilar i Örebro och Västmanlands län. Hans Karlsson berättade om sitt samlande och om sin 40-åriga vänskap med Claes. Det bjöds på fika innan vi vandrade ut i fjärilsmarkerna. Som på beställning fick vi se en asknätfjäril E. maturna.