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Butterfly excursion

Thursday 1 May 2025
09:30 - 15:00
the car park along Maastrichtsebaan
The Forestry Commission is organising a butterfly excursion on May 1, 2025 in the Chaamse woods.
A beautiful route along forest edges, heathland, sparse grassland and damp grassland. The route is about 6 km long. The start is 09:30 and lasts until about 15:00. Species we might see:
  • Spotted tadpole
  • Freshman
  • Greater tadpole
  • Haybird
  • Small fire butterfly
  • Lemon butterfly
  • Dusky sandpiper
And a lot of other beautiful species, like day peacock, atalanta, brown sandpiper etc....
Practical:
Start location: the car park along Maastrichtsebaan (51.498747, 4.930444).
Dry-weather hiking boots.

In wet weather, it will not take place as the butterflies will not fly.
See https://www.markenle ij.nl/.../vlinder-excursie-chaamse.../ for more information.
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