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 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.
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.