Moths & Butterflies Tour

Kondor EcoLodge, Kiskunság National Park, Hungary - 7 days, but can be tailor-made

The total number of recorded Lepidoptera in Hungary is close to 4000 species. Compared to the size of the country it is a huge number, due to a big variety of habitats and microclimates.

Our region, the Kiskunság National Park is famous to have the Westernmost Asiatic steppes in Europe, plus arid, sandy areas dotted with fishponds, alkaline lakes and oxbow lakes with riverine forests. As a result we have a very interesting mix of different habitats thus plenty of interesting species. From May till September almost every week we can have different species of moth at and around our Kondor EcoLodge. For several years we have not used professional moth traps, because in our area there is very limited light pollution, so generally it was enough to use outside special lightbulbs and the white walls of any of our buildings. We had amazing variety of species even with this method.

Nowadays we use a professional Robinson moth trap to catch & observe moth species in our garden. Actually the very first time we run the moth trap we caught 6 different Hawk Moth species plus many other interesting moth species, lot of them extreme rarities in UK or do not even occur, so many of them do not even have an English name such as our local endemic species.

Many thanks especially for Colin Williams who brought over from UK the Robinson Moth trap and helped us to learn not just how to use it successfully, but also to try to ID the the various moth species during the first evening sessions.

Please note that collecting or taking living specimens of any stage is strictly prohibited by the Hungarian law. We will provide literature about Hungarian and Central-European Macrolepidoptera fauna as well as a few special books on Micro moths, although most of them are written in German or Hungarian.

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Fact File

- 7 days in the centre of the Kiskunság National Park, Hungary

- start and finish in Budapest, Hungary

- using 1 accommodation

Highlights

- wide variety of habitats

- moth trapping during the night

- rare moth species

- rare butterfly species depending on the month including Large Copper, Freyer's Purple Emperor, Cardinal, Southern Festoon and many more

Accommodation

6 nights at Kondor EcoLodge in the middle of the Kiskunság National Park, Hungary

www.kondorecolodge.hu

Departure Dates

From May till October

http://www.ecotours.hu/calendar

Price

Ask for the actual price.

Our price includes:

- all travel as noted in the itinerary;

- all accommodation based on shared rooms (most rooms are twin bedded), at most locations there are single rooms as well for extra charge (Please ask for a single room at the time of booking!);

- 3 meals per day, generally breakfast at the accommodation, packed lunch, dinner (consists of at least two courses);

- services of the leader(s);

- trip materials.

Not included:

- flight to and from Vienna;

- optional programmes to places of interest and its entrance fees

- passports and visas

- airport and other departure taxes, tips

- food beyond generally 3 meals/day mentioned in the itineraries

- excess baggage charges,

- telephone calls,

- alcoholic beverages,

- compulsory personal insurance

If you have questions about the inclusion of any cost item, please contact us

Activity level

Easy walks in and around our Kondor EcoLodge garden at butterfly and moth reach habitats

Itinerary

The following list is just a short list of species we have trapped during end of May, beginning of June. But each month, well, actually quite regularly every week has its own special list, so from April till October there are always a lot to look for.

1	Small Elephant Haewkmoth	Deilephila porcellus
2	Orange Moth	Angerona prunaria
3	Clouded Border	Lomaspilis marginata
4	Bordered White	Bupalus piniaria
5	Setaceous Hebrew Character	Xestia c-nigrum
6	Pine Hawkmoth	Hyloicus pinastri
7	Orange Footman	Eilema caniola
8	Riband Wave	Idaea aversata
9	Large Yellow Underwing	Noctua comes
10	Double Line	Mythimna turca
11	Delicate	Mythimna vitellina
12	The Flame	Axylia putris
13	Willow Beauty	Peribatodes rhomboidana
14	Heart And Dart	Agrotis exclamationis
15	Pale Prominent	Notodonta ziczac
16	Treble Lines
17	Mottled Rustic
18	Common Wainscot
19	Pale-shouldered Brocade	Lacanobia thalassina
20	(species of grass moth)	Catoptria falsella
21	(species of puss moth)	Zeuzera pyrina
22	Cream-spot Tiger	Arctia villica britannica
23	Poplar Hawkmoth	Laothoe populi
24	Buff Arches
25	Straw Dot
26	Portland Ribbon Wave
27	Lilac Beauty
28	Swallow Prominent	Pheosia tremula
29	Marbled Minor
30	Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing	Noctua janthe
31	Large Dark Prominent	Notodonta torva
32	Rustic
33	Buff-tip
34	Green Oak Tortrix
35	Spotted Sulphur
36	Bedstraw Hawkmoth
37	Poplar Kitten
38	Chocolate-tip
39	Barred Red
40	White-point
41	Lychis
42	Sprawler spp.
43	Eyed Hawkmoth
44	Birdswing
45	Gold Triangle
46	Bright-line Brown-eye
47		Ethmia bipunctella
48	Beautiful Hook-tip
49	European Corn Bearer
50	Silver Barred
51	Tawny-barred Angle
52		Dioryctria simplicella
53	Poplar Grey
54	Least Carpet
55	Spurge Hawkmoth
56	Golden Twin-spot
57	Mottled Beauty
58	Tissue or Scarce Tissue
59	Sharp-angled Peacock
60	Oblique Striped
61	Mullein Wave
62	Meal Moth	Pyralis farinalis
63	Goat Moth
64	Mullein
65	Dark or Grey Dagger
66	Pebble Prominent
67	Muslin Moth
68	Three-lumped Prominent
69	Silver-Y
70	Turnip Moth
71	Shark spp
72	Figure of Eighty
73	Lobster
74	Burnished Brass
75	Flame Shoulder
76	Orache Moth
77	Sub-angled Wave
78	Geometrician
79	Common Emeald
80	Pine-tree Lappet
81	Fan-foot
82	Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
83	Yellow-tail
84	Four-spotted Footman
85	Barred Straw