A new animal species has appeared in Lower Austria! A reporter from the “Krone” reader photographed the Japanese oak silk moth in the Wiener Neustadt district.
You can’t really miss it as it flutters over bushes and fields. The Japanese oak silk moth has very broad wings for a butterfly. These measure no less than 140 millimeters!
Butterfly spotted in Gutenstein
Now – as ‘Krone’ reader-reporter Catharina Fischer tells us – one of these beautiful animals has landed in Gutenstein in the Wiener Neustadt district. ‘It wasn’t so easy to identify it. “We didn’t know what kind of butterfly it was,” says the conservationist.
Surprisingly, its native range is East Asia, specifically the Land of the Rising Sun. Curiously, the flutterer we have now discovered could be a descendant of imported spinners that escaped from a silk farm in Slovenia in 1868.
By the way: the butterfly tastes particularly good to a local bird species, the bright yellow golden oriole.
Source: Krone
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