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:HVW (XURSH * Yitzhak Meyuhas of Kibutz Giv’at HaShlosha, C Israel
8. - found everywhere, depends on migration from S is an amateur archeologist, naturalist, spiritual and
Europe but usually unable to survive the winters. In late physical healer, photographer and an extreme “sample”
summer “return migration to the butterfly winter breeding of a lepidopterist that can communicate with butterflies
grounds in southern Europe” (Eeles, 2019: 233; Thomas (but also with ravens and owls)! His story starts on 13
& Lewington, 2014: 174). Sometimes overwinter inside November 2005 at 12:00 noon time on his way to his © Dubi Benyamini
houses (Weddington, 1934). work at the Kibbutz shop. On the concrete junction of
)UDQFH - two annual broods between March and November, two tracks he saw a Red Admiral busking in the sun with
everywhere up to 2600 m in the mountains, but in the spread wings. This junction is under the canopy and shade
south year round above 15°C. The global warming-up of a large Margosa tree but in November in early-winter it Ļ
enables them to overwinter in C France by migrants is leafless and the sun illuminates the track below. Every
reinforcements from the south in May-June. In the autumn, day he saw the Red Admiral on his way to the shop at © Dubi Benyamini © Dubi Benyamini
part of the 2nd brood migrates southwards to overwinter in 12:00 and again in 16:00 on his way back. He called them
warmer biotopes, sometimes in swarms e.g. in Havre on 13 Zrubavel (male) and Zrubavela (female). He saw them 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
September 2002, one to five meters above ground at the every day except cloudy days when they stood with closed
rate of 50 specimens every minute; In a mountain cradle wings or were absent. On 16 March 2006 he photographed
north and over La Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière in them and succeeded to attract one of them to his extended
the old city of Lyon, SE France on 1st October 2021, in a hand where it landed five times on his palm (Benyamini,
sunny windless day, at 13:00 PM, migrating singletons and 2006f & Meyuhas website www.stage.co.il). Zrubavel 2
pairs Red Admirals were flying southwards ~ two meters (Z2) was observed in October 2006; Z3 on 4.11.2007; Z4
over the ground at a rate of 30-36 individuals per minute on 19.10.2008; Z5 on 8.11.2009 to Z13 on 3.11.2016; © Dubi Benyamini © Dubi Benyamini © Dubi Benyamini © Dubi Benyamini
crossing a four meters front (Adi Kahan, 2021 & pers. Z14 on 28.11.2017; Z15 in early October 2018 but Z16
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comm. to DB). It flies also at night and overwinter in old (or its offspring) was observed only on 21.3.2020 after 10
houses roofs, rock crevices, near stones, cracks in tree overwintering. It seems that in this site the Red Admirals
barks etc. Overwinter as egg, larva or pupa but mostly as arrived usually in November, a bit later than in the Negev.
an adult (Lafranchis et al., 2015: 442-443). Yitzhak became famous because of his success to call
6: 86$ &HQWUDO &DOLIRUQLD “There does not appear to Zrubavels to his hand every year (illustr. 5) but he is
be significant latitudinal migration…they overwinter at low possibly not alone in the world; Almost in the same period
elevations as adults and are the most commonly seen on 7 July 2007 a Red Admiral landed on the shirt collar
butterflies from mid-December to early-March…when they of Dan Southerland near his office when he walked along
breed in the local winter… so are probably not in diapause. busy 19th street NW in Washington DC; to his surprise © Dubi Benyamini © Dubi Benyamini © Leah Benyamini © Leah Benyamini
There appears to be upslope migration into the Sierra the butterfly did not left him during the next hour or more 11
around June” (A. M. Shapiro – pers. comm. to DB). when his picture was snapped with his little friend at a
1( 86$ 3KLODGHOSKLD DQG 1HZ <RUN “Its migration can be photography shop, next he took him to a restaurant and © Dubi Benyamini
conspicuous in the NE USA, where they migrate in spring then called his wife from the steakhouse to tell her that he
from further south; as early as late March arriving to Ithaca, was coming home early with a butterfly. He managed to get
NY not until May” (A. M. Shapiro pers. comm. to DB). into a cab “without dislodging his passenger. The butterfly
shifted from his collar to his necktie” until he arrived to his
house in Maryland. To his amazement day after day after
&RQVWDQW DQQXDO RYHUZLQWHULQJ VLWHV that, if he returned home before dark, the butterfly, which
one of the most amazing phenomenon in Israel are fix tiny he recognized by one tattered wing, would come out from
sites where a few adults (even singletons) visit year after the garden to greet him. This relationship with butterflies © Leah Benyamini © Leah Benyamini © Leah Benyamini © Dubi Benyamini
year during very similar dates; it can be a tree, a junction of that repeatedly landed on him proceeded for more than a
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tracks in a kibbutz or a Lantana bush in a private garden; decade and was published in the Washington Post where Limenitis reducta 13 Limenitis camilla 12
they always choose sunny area or a sun spot. Five different Dan believed that he was “blessed by the red admiral” aerial latrine Ļ
sites and their stories are presented with a summary (Southerland, 2020).
suggesting for the first time a rather simple solution to a * Gadi Ish-Am of Kibbutz Sasa N Israel is a leading Israeli
complicated unbelievable (epigenetics?) phenomenon: botanist, a teacher in Ohalo academic college of education,
* Evyatar Feingold of Midreshet Ben-Gurion (college), Sde- a mentor in BMS Israel for monitoring teams in the north
Boker C Negev, a high school student in 1998 when he of the country and a senior lepidopterist. Since the early
first observed a single territorial atalanta perching on a 2000’s observed Red Admirals basking on asphalt roads “pier” extension
small olive tree in front of no’ 3 house (Feingold, 1998 in the center of the Kibbutz – starting in autumn months of Lonicera’s leaf midrib Ļ
& 1999b). In the next 21 years, every year, Evyatar saw of October/November, nectaring in warm winter days and © Dubi Benyamini
a new Red Admiral perching from the “same” olive tree reappearing in the spring-early summer as late as May/ © Dubi Benyamini © Peter Eeles
branches, Evyatar managed to record the first arrivals in June before departing to the north – illustr. 6.
most of the years: 16.10.1998; 19.10.1999; 22.10.2000; * Yehiam Salts is a plant genetics and biotechnology
17.10.2001; 26.10.2002; 30.9.2005; 28.10.2006; expert but also a keen photographer who observed and
4.11.2007 & 30.9.2008. In the following years between photographed V. atalanta adults busking at noon and early
2009 – 2019 the Red Admirals kept their schedule arriving afternoon hours in HaMaginim Forest C Israel every year
usually in late October to early November. However, they in the same place (“plus minus a few meters” – facebook
grew in numbers and up to five adults, mostly territorial information) since 2014 in a sunny opening on asphalt and
males were observed on sunny days, arriving at noon time dirt roads. Yehiam suggested that our case of Atalanta’s
to the pavements near his house and leaving by 15:30 to offspring return to their parent’s origin in the Levant is a
© Dubi Benyamini © Dubi Benyamini © Limor Gefen ‹ 2ÀU 7RPHU

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