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Common Lichens (Class Lecanoromycetes)Observer
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The Gletscherschlucht, or Glacier Gorge, is a dramatic slot canyon carved by the meltwaters of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier. The sign called the rock both "grey limestone" and "Grindelwald marble". It could be that some portions are metamorphosed and others not. Here the rock shows iron impregnation from iron-bearing groundwater that has seeped out at this spot. It seems to have attracted some sort of iron-loving lichen.
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Common Rough Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber)Observer
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Found indoors
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Speckled Bush-Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)Observer
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Found indoors; released outside after the obligatory photo shoot. 15 mm.
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Yellow-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)Observer
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A Yellow-billed Chough begging from the tourists.
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Coal Tit (Periparus ater)Observer
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On pine, probably Pinus mugo.
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Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum)Observer
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Everyplace we went had window boxes overflowing with geraniums. They were very popular with the hummingbird moths.
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Genus LasioglossumObserver
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Tentative ID. CV thinks it sees enough here to make this out.
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Wood Crane's-Bill (Geranium sylvaticum)Observer
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The pollinator is coming up in iNat CV as a sawfly, Tenthredo koehleri.
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St. Mark’s Flies (Genus Bibio)Observer
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On my long-suffering husband's arm. This is coming up in iNat CV as Bibio, but none of the sp. suggested seem to have a significant fall flight. And a forward search did not reveal any fall-flying, black-legged Bibio IDed to species in Switzerland. It is small -- maybe 7–8 mm.
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Swiss Brassy Ringlet (Erebia tyndarus)Observer
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Endemic to the Alps.
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Red-thighed St Mark's Fly (Bibio pomonae)Observer
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March fly (Bibio sp.), tentatively B. pomonae.
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Marsh Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris)Observer
anita363Description
Tentative ID.
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Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii)Observer
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Naturalized along the banks of the Rhine, growing as a small shrub.
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Hoary Willowherb (Epilobium parviflorum)Observer
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Growing at the edge of the Rhine.
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Greater Musk-Mallow (Malva alcea)Observer
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Growing on the banks of the Rhine. Tentative ID.
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Chub (Squalius cephalus)Observer
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Chub, Squalius cephalus. A school of dozens of these large fish was hanging out in the shallows downstream of the falls.
