Mainly lepidoptera with assorted other things seen during a week in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Most were in the Murren area.
Swallowtail Papilio machao
Moorland Clouded Yellow Colias palaeno
Alpine Heath Coenonympha gardetta
Titania's Fritillary Boloria titania
Mountain Fritillary Boloria napaea
Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene
Purple-edged Copper Lycaena hippothoe
Sooty Copper Lycaena tityrus, female
Yellow-spotted Ringlet Erebia manto
Large Wall Brown Lasiommata maera
Burnet Companion Euclidia glyphica
Northern Eggar Lasiocampa quercus
Small Argent & Sable Epirrhoe tristata
Catastia marginea
Psodos quadrifaria
Six-spot Burnets Zygaena filipendulae
Anania funebris
Lampronia rupella
Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris
Roman Snail Helix pomatia
Common Lizard Zootoca vivipara
White-faced Darter Leucorrhinia dubia
Early Purple Orchid Orchis mascula
Small White Orchid Psuedorchis albid
Common Spotted Orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii
Glacier Crowfoot Ranunculus glacialis
Yellow Alpine Pansy Viola sp.
Unknown flower
Moss Campion Silene acaulis
Alpine Gentian Gentiana alpina
Huge recumbent fold
The Aletsch Glacier, the longest in the Alps, winds its way into the distance, carving the valleys of the future on its 23km journey through the mountains
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