Other Insects of my wet meadow. Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

A bee-fly resting on a speedwell in a wet meadow.

A bee-fly resting on a speedwell in a wet meadow.

A Thick-Headed Fly gathering nectar of a dandelion in a wet meadow.

A Thick-Headed Fly gathering nectar of a dandelion in a wet meadow.

A Thick-Headed Fly gathering nectar of a dandelion in a wet meadow.

Red-headed cardinal beetle resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

A Click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

A Click beetle belonging to the family Elateridae resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

A male hoverfly resting on a nettle leaf in my garden. A species that is particularly welcome because adults are pollinators and larvae are aphidophagous and therefore eat aphids.

Violet oil beetle male traversing undergrowth in search of food. He loves the leaves of lesser celandine but it is an opportunistic and it tastes all vegetables it finds on its way.

A female of a Marmalade Hoverfly full of promises posed on a blade of grass in my wet meadow.

A Beautiful Demoiselle male resting near a little stream in a wet meadow.

A Thick-Headed Fly resting on a cuckooflower in a wet meadow.

.A Thick-Headed Fly resting on a cuckooflower in a wet meadow.

A Thick-Headed Fly resting on a cuckooflower in a wet meadow.

A Thick-Headed Fly resting on a cuckooflower in a wet meadow.

A Thick-Headed Fly resting on a cuckooflower in a wet meadow.

A Cuckoo Bee at rest in the heart of a dandelion flower in a wet meadow. Nomada is a kleptoparasite group species, females lay in the nests of other bees species.

Blue Ground Beetle caught a few moments in the palm of my hands in a wet meadow.

Blue Ground Beetle on a dead trunk in a wet meadow.

Blue Ground Beetle hidden under the bark of a dead tree trunk in a wet meadow.

Checkered beetle resting on an oxeye daisy in a wet meadow.

Leafcutter bee gathering nectar of purple loosestrife in a wet meadow.

Leafcutter bee female gathering nectar of apple mint in a wet meadow.

Leafcutter bee female gathering nectar of apple mint in a wet meadow.

A Robberfly resting on a bramble leaf in a wet meadow.

Mating of Spotted Longhorn beetles on meadowsweet in a wet meadow.

Mating of Spotted Longhorn beetles on meadowsweet in a wet meadow.

Mating of net-winged beetles on apple mint in a wet meadow. The adults are nectarivores and larvae are predators of insects living in decaying wood.

Keeled Skimmer female resting in a wet meadow.

A Beautiful Demoiselle male resting on an apple mint in a wet meadow.

Hoplia coerulea male resting on an apple mint in a wet meadow.

Keeled Skimmer male resting on a twig in a wet meadow.

Keeled Skimmer male resting on a twig in a wet meadow.

A Cossus Hoverfly female resting on an apple mint in a wet meadow.

A Beautiful Demoiselle male resting on common bracken in a wet meadow.

A Great Green Bush-Cricket male resting on a leaf in a wet meadow.

A Welsh Chafer resting on common yarrow in a wet meadow.

A Welsh Chafer resting on common yarrow in a wet meadow.

Sombre Goldenring dragonfly male resting in my garden.