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25 June

Weak to strong winds, partly cloudy conditions and 20°C (10:58 AM) – similar conditions like on the 24th, with the exception that the winds no longer were cool and I only tool my camera with me while my mother and I were picking cherries.

+-------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+
| Species                 | Location                        | Status |
+-------------------------+---------------------------------|--------+
| Boloria dia             | Zone I                          | Adult  |
|-------------------------|---------------------------------|--------|
| Coenonympha pamphilus   | Zone I                          | Adult  |
|-------------------------|---------------------------------|--------|
| Maniola jurtina         | Zone I                          | Adult  |
|-------------------------|---------------------------------|--------|
| Melanargia galathea     | Zone I                          | Adult  |
|-------------------------|---------------------------------|--------|
| Ochlodes sylvanus       | Mixed Field                     | Adult  |
|-------------------------|---------------------------------|--------|
| Pieris rapae            | Mixed Field / Zone I            | Adult  |
|–------------------------|---------------------------------|--------|
| Thymelicus lineola      | Yard / Zone I                   | Adult  |
|–------------------------|---------------------------------|--------|
| Thymelicus sylvestris   | Zone I                          | Adult  |
+-------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+

Two more individual butterflies were observed between afternoon and evening (28.5°C at 6:30 PM).

+-------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+
| Species                 | Location                        | Status |
+-------------------------+---------------------------------|--------+
| Araschnia levana        | Yard                            | Adult  |
|-------------------------|---------------------------------|--------|
| Pieris rapae            | Yard / Cemetery                 | Adult  |
+-------------------------+---------------------------------+--------+

To my own frustration, teenagers from our local secondary school were roaming around without any teacher or other adult supervising them and they ended up plugging and trampling over or brittle bladder-fern (Cystopteris fragilis), so far the only individual in my entire district registered in Flora Incognita and thus an extremely rare species in my area. This is yet-another reason why I won't make the exact locations of my study areas public; such spontaneous destructions by locals and tourists from my own state already cause enough damage.