Description: The Nymphalidae include showy species such as the strawberry butterfly (Charaxes jasius) which is common in the bush around Gratteri, but undetectable because it flies high above the trees. Its larva develops on the strawberry tree (armulinu). The Painted Ladies live in the clearings on the edge of the woods; the most original, the Peacock, on whose wings […]
Description: The Golden Eagle (Accitridae order) can be distinguished by its large size, its gliding and sliding flight with few wing beats, the primaries wide apart and sometimes upwards and the tail rather square. The uniformly dark plumage with a yellow gold colour on the head and the neck. It hunts scouring the mountain sides. It can be […]
Description: The box contains some beetles of various families and shows how great are the differences between these creatures. There are the glowworms, that is, the fireflies which emit light from their bodies on the summer nights; the species of the “Cleridi” with red stripes, living as a parasitic on the bees and wasps’ nests or eating the larvae […]
Description Moths, among which there are some species that sometimes multiply excessively harming forests. This is the case of the oak eggar and especially the Lyumantria Dispar that can eat the leaves of an entire forest. The name of Dispar alludes to the fact that the two sexes are very different, since males are rather […]
Description: The old mechanical movement for a tower clock, made by the artisan company Scibetta of Bisaquino, has carried out its fundamental role until about 1980. It was placed inside the civic tower located in the centre of Gratteri and was replaced with a modern electric clock movement. The old hand-wound movement, although potentially still working, needed for the daily […]
Description: The archaeological remains have been found in the ancient abbey of St. George. This comes as the archaeological field. The unique structures in elevation are those of the perimeter of the church, among other structures that do not reach entirely the upper edge of the original masonry. There are only some traces of the two lateral apses. The […]
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