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Cordulegaster boltonii
A Golden-ringed Dragonfly male newly emerged clinging to his larval skin. His black and gold livery will appear at the end of the drying of its wings, when it will be ready for its first flight. Limousin, France.
Cordulegaster boltonii
A Golden-ringed Dragonfly male newly emerged clinging to his larval skin. His black and gold livery will appear at the end of the drying of its wings, when it will be ready for its first flight. Limousin, France.
Cordulegaster boltonii
A Golden-ringed Dragonfly male newly emerged clinging to his larval skin. His black and gold livery will appear at the end of the drying of its wings, when it will be ready for its first flight. Limousin, France.
Cordulegaster boltonii
A Golden-ringed Dragonfly male newly emerged clinging to his larval skin. His black and gold livery will appear at the end of the drying of its wings, when it will be ready for its first flight. Limousin, France.
Cordulegaster boltonii
A Golden-ringed Dragonfly male newly emerged clinging to his larval skin. His black and gold livery will appear at the end of the drying of its wings, when it will be ready for its first flight. Limousin, France.
Cordulegaster boltonii
A Golden-ringed Dragonfly male newly emerged clinging to his larval skin. His black and gold livery will appear at the end of the drying of its wings, when it will be ready for its first flight. Limousin, France.
Cordulegaster boltonii
A Golden-ringed Dragonfly male newly emerged clinging to his larval skin. His black and gold livery will appear at the end of the drying of its wings, when it will be ready for its first flight. Limousin, France.
Cordulegaster boltonii
A Golden-ringed Dragonfly male newly emerged clinging to his larval skin. His black and gold livery will appear at the end of the drying of its wings, when it will be ready for its first flight. Limousin, France.
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Large Red Damselfly male resting on a leaf of apple tree in an orchard. Limousin, France.
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Large Red Damselfly female resting on a leaf of nettle in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Large Red Damselfly male resting on a ear of velvet grass in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Large Red Damselfly female resting on a leaf of nettle in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Malacosoma neustria
A caterpillar of Lackey moth eating a blade of grass near a forest. Limousin, France.
Malacosoma neustria
A caterpillar of Lackey moth eating a blade of grass near a forest. Limousin, France.
Malacosoma neustria
A caterpillar of Lackey moth eating a blade of grass near a forest. Limousin, France.
Mimas Tiliae
A caterpillar of Lime Hawk-moth fell from its host tree. After a little photo shoot on a mullein leave, I gave it at the foot of lime.
Epistrophe eligans
A female hoverfly resting on a tomato plant in my garden. A species that is particularly welcome because adults are pollinators and larvae are aphidophagous and therefore eat aphids.
Epistrophe eligans
A female hoverfly resting on a tomato plant in my garden. A species that is particularly welcome because adults are pollinators and larvae are aphidophagous and therefore eat aphids.
Anthaxia sp.
Splendour Beetles mating in a buttercup flower. Adults of this genus are anthophagous (feeds on flowers) and the larvae feed by burrowing into the wood of oak, willow, maple or chestnut.
Anthaxia sp.
Splendour Beetles mating in a buttercup flower. Adults of this genus are anthophagous (feeds on flowers) and the larvae feed by burrowing into the wood of oak, willow, maple or chestnut.
Anthaxia sp.
Splendour Beetles mating in a buttercup flower. Adults of this genus are anthophagous (feeds on flowers) and the larvae feed by burrowing into the wood of oak, willow, maple or chestnut.
Anthaxia sp.
Splendour Beetles mating in a buttercup flower. Adults of this genus are anthophagous (feeds on flowers) and the larvae feed by burrowing into the wood of oak, willow, maple or chestnut.
Hemichroa australis
A small sawfly very characteristic with its red head and yet very difficult to identify. Photos of this species in the imago state are very rare. The larvae are green and like the leaves of alder and birch. This one resting on a periwinkle leaf near a pond. Limousin, France.
Hemichroa australis
A small sawfly very characteristic with its red head and yet very difficult to identify. Photos of this species in the imago state are very rare. The larvae are green and like the leaves of alder and birch. This one resting on a periwinkle leaf near a pond. Limousin, France.
Myzia oblongoguttata
A Striped Ladybird, a discreet species that I see for the first time in my area, resting on a leaf near the forest. Limousin, France.
Myzia oblongoguttata
A Striped Ladybird, a discreet species that I see for the first time in my area, resting on a leaf near the forest. Limousin, France.
Helophilus pendulus
Footballer Hoverfly female resting on a buttercup leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Helophilus pendulus
Footballer Hoverfly female resting on a buttercup leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Helophilus pendulus
Footballer Hoverfly female resting on a buttercup leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Oxythyrea funesta
White-spotted Rose Beetle love flowers, this seems like a primrose plant that blooms every year in our wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Oxythyrea funesta
White-spotted Rose Beetle love flowers, this seems like a primrose plant that blooms every year in our wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Eupeodes sp.
A tiny male hoverfly gathering nectar of a tiny chickweed flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Meloe violaceus
Violet oil beetle 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. Limousin, France.
Meloe violaceus
Violet oil beetle 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. Limousin, France.
Meloe violaceus
Violet oil beetle 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. Limousin, France.
Meloe violaceus
Violet oil beetle 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. Limousin, France.
Meloe violaceus
Violet oil beetle 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. Limousin, France.
Meloe violaceus
Violet oil beetle 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. Limousin, France.
Andrena nitida
Andrena nitida is a mining and solitary bee, a little larger than a honeybee, it is early (appears in March / April) and is particularly fond of pollen of buttercups and dandelions. Here a female (the male is much more svelte) on a leaf of sorrel in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Sphaerophoria scripta
A Long Hoverfly male cleans his legs on a leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Meligethes sp.
A sap beetle, tiny beetle of Nitidulidae family, eaten with relish an anther of wood anemone on the edge of a forest stream. Limousin, France.
