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Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)Observer
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Tentative ID. Limestone gorge.
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Green Spleenwort (Asplenium viride)Observer
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This species is a specialist on limestone and other calcareous rocks.
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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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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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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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Genus BibioObserver
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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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Red-thighed St Mark's Fly (Bibio pomonae)Observer
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March fly (Bibio sp.), tentatively B. pomonae.