Site Report: Encumeada Tunnels, Portugal
Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Herald Moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Marmalade Hover Fly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Large Garden Bumble Bee (Bombus ruderatus)
Zebra Blues (Lycaenidae sp)
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)
Autograph Moth (Autographa sp)
Fruit Fly (Tephritidae sp)
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Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Herald Moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Marmalade Hover Fly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Large Garden Bumble Bee (Bombus ruderatus)
Zebra Blues (Lycaenidae sp)
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)
Autograph Moth (Autographa sp)
Fruit Fly (Tephritidae sp)
A walk along the irrigation canal in the mountains.
Visits
- 2026-08-22: For our last day, we drove up into the mountains to do a hike next to an irrigation channel. There were a couple of parts where you have to walk through a tunnel along with crystallized dead moths and plenty of spiders.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (16 records,
10 images)
Phylum: Arthropods
(9 records,
9 images)
Class: Arachnids
(1 record,
1 image)
- Order: Spiders
(1 record)
- Family: Long-jawed Orbweavers
- Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Class: Insects
(8 records,
8 images)
- Order: Bees, Wasps, and Ants
(1 record)
- Family: Apidae
- Large Garden Bumble Bee (Bombus ruderatus)
- Order: Butterflies and Moths
(4 records)
- Family: Cutworm Moths and Allies
- Autograph Moth (Autographa sp)
- Family: Gossamer-winged Butterflies
- Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
- Zebra Blues (Lycaenidae sp)
- Family: Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths
- Herald Moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
- Order: Flies
(3 records)
- Family: Fruit Flies
- Fruit Fly (Tephritidae sp)
- Family: Hover Flies
- Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
- Marmalade Hover Fly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Phylum: Chordates
(7 records,
1 image)
Class: Birds
(6 records,
0 images)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Trocaz Pigeon (Columba trocaz)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(1 record)
- Family: Swifts
- Plain Swift (Apus unicolor)
- Order: Perching Birds
(3 records)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Madeira Chaffinch (Fringilla maderensis)
- Family: Kinglets
- Madeira Firecrest (Regulus madeirensis)
- Family: Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers
- Eurasian Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(1 record)
- Family: Grouse, Turkeys, and Allies
- Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus)
Class: Ray-finned Fish
(1 record,
1 image)
- Order: Salmon, Trout
(1 record)
- Family: Salmon, Trout
- Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)