Site Report: Encumeada Tunnels, Portugal
Madeira Mountains
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Herald Moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
Marmalade Hover Fly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Large Garden Bumble Bee (Bombus ruderatus)
Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)
Essex Υ (Autographa circumflexa)
Black Fly (Simuliidae sp)
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Madeira Mountains
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Herald Moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
Marmalade Hover Fly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Large Garden Bumble Bee (Bombus ruderatus)
Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)
Essex Υ (Autographa circumflexa)
Black Fly (Simuliidae 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
- Essex Υ (Autographa circumflexa)
- Family: Gossamer-winged Butterflies
- Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)
- Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
- Family: Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths
- Herald Moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
- Order: Flies
(3 records)
- Family: Black Flies
- Black Fly (Simuliidae 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)