Friendly moth: Bavaria day 4

Today we went out early again, as it was forecast to rain later. We got Mum to choose two flattish walks from the book before we went out. The first one was the other walk we would have done yesterday, it wasn't very long, but it was quite nice and cool in the shade next to the river. There were several waterfalls, which people were jumping down.

Once we'd done the walk, we found a bench next to the river, and had our lunch. When we walked back to the car park, we noticed a sign, showing various animals in the area, and roughly where on the map you could see them (presumably, it was all in German). One of the animals was a butterfly called an Apollo, which was shown as not being too far down the road. Mum wanted to try and find one, so we drove down the road, only to find almost immediately that there was a barrier, and that we had to pay to drive further. There was a car park next to it, so we parked there and decided to walk the rest of the way.

There was a path up a large hill to where we wanted to go, so we walked up through the pine forest. On the way, a yellow moth landed on Dad's shorts. After we'd photographed it, Dad tried to get it off, but it just sat on his hand instead! It looked a bit like it was trying to drink his sweat, but it might have just liked the warmth. We each had a go carrying it, although I had it for most of the time, as we were unable to persuade it to leave by any gentle means.

After quite some time of walking up the hill, with no way of knowing how close to the top we were, the moth took off and left. Shortly after that we finally came out of the woods, at a farm. It seemed to be the place we were looking for, but there were no white butterflies in sight.

We managed to find the way down, and saw a few interesting insects on the way, including a metallic green wasp-like thing which I was too slow to photograph. When we finally got back to the car, we were very tired, so we drove home.

Extras:
Babby yak
Pearl-bordered Fritillary
Tenthredo arcuata (sawfly)