Jörg Klüber


Premium (World), Oppenau-Ramsbach

Petasites

02/03/11

This is the flower of Petasites albus who prefer fresh soil stands. The very familiar Petasites hybridus is the feeding plant of the larva of the Butterbur Moth (Hydraecia petasitis Doubleday). The larva feeds in the stalks of the leaf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_moths_of_Great_Britain_%28Noctuidae%29

http://www.lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?Hydraecia_petasitis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petasites

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Camera NIKON D90
Lens 159
Aperture 2.8
Exposure time 1/250
Focus length 35.0 mm
ISO 640