03Flora and Fauna
All that lives in the oaks’ shade.
I · Flora — II · Fauna
Natural Monument · Šalinac, Smederevo
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44°41′24″ N 21°00′59″ E
I · Flora
The same burdock, three seasons.
Arctium lappa
One of the eight protected plant species of the Lug. Oaks measure time in centuries — the plants around them, in seasons.
Cut-leaved teasel
Dipsacus laciniatus
The dry prickly heads stand in the meadow through the winter.
Danewort
Sambucus ebulus
A herbaceous elder, with black berries in upright clusters.
Dog rose
Rosa canina
The fruit of the wild rose — autumn food for birds.
II · Fauna
The owl in the hollow.
Barn owl · Tyto alba
In the Lug the barn owl nests in the cavities of old oaks — the only known such place in Serbia.
One of the 37 bird species recorded in the Lug.
Encounters
Who else lives
among the oaks.
Birds of old trees, rare insects of oak forests, lizards of sunny clearings.
Great spotted woodpecker
Dendrocopos major
The middle spotted woodpecker and the Syrian woodpecker also live in the Lug, both protected by the European Birds Directive.
European bee-eater
Merops apiaster
It hunts bees and wasps in flight.
Southern festoon
Zerynthia polyxena
It flies from April to the end of May; the caterpillars live on birthwort.
Great capricorn beetle
Cerambyx cerdo
One of the largest European longhorn beetles, up to 5.4 cm long. It flies from May to September.
Steppe lizard
A fast resident of sunny clearings.
Short-legged lizard
It belongs to the hidden world of ground vegetation.
And when darkness falls, the Lug belongs to others.
At night
At nightfall.
The hedgehog belongs to the quiet night world of forest edges and meadows. From the cavities of old oaks bats fly out — the lesser mouse-eared bat and Bechstein’s bat, species of international importance.
The white stork, the great crested newt, the hare and the mole have also been recorded in the Lug.
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The Four Seasons
A year in the Lug — a film.
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