S ollowing the bugs seen in the area of \u200b\u200bPuerto de la Morcuera last Sunday was an event that caught my attention and I find it interesting to note in this book shared field.
While ascending the peak of Bailanderos was pleasantly cool, not just a slight breeze, the descent could not say the same. Time to move on the slopes of the Najarra, when thinking entertain with the camera, began an uneasy wind would not let me take pictures of insects in peace. Yet I armed with patience and tried to do I could. I can not say that the results were quite remarkable, but, as usual, I excuse in its documentary value and not artistic, that is what is intended.
One of the butterflies flying this day at the top of the Sierra, was the nymphalid Melanargia russiae , known as medioluto mountaineering. So inn on the ground took the sun, just when the wind started and the Butterfly was dragged up the slope. 
To locate every time you flew my daughter helped me at one point, to his surprise, he exclaimed, dropped dead!
To locate every time you flew my daughter helped me at one point, to his surprise, he exclaimed, dropped dead! Indeed, this is the sensation it produced and repeated it three more times. Each time the wind was left raging suddenly fall to the ground and lay down. That allowed me to take a picture of the back of the wings to ensure identification. Not sure if it a dual strategy, keep the wind and play dead on the ground camouflaged, which was very similar color, or just for one reason, but obviously this is a behavior of the species he repeated several times.
is seen that the specimen has the wings frayed and quite faded, mid-August is the end of its life cycle and these will be the last we see this year. The caterpillars spend the winter hidden among the mountain grasses are their food plants under the snow and ice. This is the medioluto more typical of Iberian mountains. As we go down we will see in conjunction with other more cosmopolitan, but at the top, just left it. Another mountain is Satyrus Actaea, called by the common name funny black satyr.
Because there was a lot of copies in a sheltered place, I could make some more decent picture. This species, biology very similar to the previous one, is also the end of their flight period began in July. A mountain species only gives them time for a generation. In the photo above, in the background, looks a female specimen which is clearer and more contrasting colors than the male, seen in the photo below.
Last summer I did a pair of tickets to the mountain butterflies as the main protagonists, but not on these two species 
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