Valley of the Butterflies

Valley of the Butterflies, approximately 3 kilometers south east from the village of Theologos or Tholos, there lies the Valley of the Butterflies Petaloudes. This is one of the maximum appealing destinations on the island. During August, heaps of butterflies of the genus Panaxia species Quadripunctaria Poda swarm into the valley that allows you to reproduce. During the wet period, the Butterflies, nonetheless inside the caterpillar degree, remain within the Mediterranean thicket arbutus, myrtle and rush feeding on the foliage. As the quit of the wet season procedures, toward the stop of May, the very last degree is concluded and the butterfly in all her perfection makes her look in the form recognizable to us all.

They flow constantly in the direction of areas of highest humidity is finest, continually following the "water approaches", because the dry length progresses, they in the end arrive at the valley. Rhodes, “Butterfly Valley” in Greek “Petaloudes”. Apart from its aesthetic price, it is also the site of the simplest herbal wooded area of Liquidambar orientalis Oriental Sweetgum trees in Europe, and a resting factor for the Jersey tiger Panaxia Quadripunctaria, a nocturnal moth. An superb vicinity for families with children wish to revel in the beauties of nature and observe the lifestyles cycle of butterflies as part of their summer vacation.