Natural phenomenon
Japanese butterfly species fluttered into Lower Austria
A new species has been recorded in Lower Austria! A "Krone" reader reporter photographed the Japanese oak silk moth in the district of Wiener Neustadt.
You can't really miss it when it flutters over bushes and fields. This is because the Japanese oak silk moth has very broad wings for a butterfly. They measure up to 140 millimeters!
Butterfly spotted in Gutenstein
Now - as reported to us by "Krone" reader reporter Catharina Fischer - one of these wonderful creatures has landed in Gutenstein in the district of Wiener Neustadt. "It wasn't so easy to identify it. We didn't know what kind of butterfly it was," explains the conservationist.
Surprisingly, its original distribution area is East Asia and specifically the Land of the Rising Sun. Curious: The flutterer that has now been discovered here could be a descendant of imported spinners that escaped from a silk farm in Slovenia in 1868.
Incidentally, the butterfly tastes particularly good to a native bird species, the bright yellow oriole.
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