In 1880 he worked on the insect fauna of the then unexplored regions of Vulture and Pollino in southern Italy.Many specialists worked on the insects collected (now in La Specola) and the results were published as Narrazione della escursione fatta alVulture ed al Pollino nel luglio del 1880 da A. Biondi, C. Caroti e G. Cavanna, pp. 3-30.