Great Banded Furrow Bee female gathering nectar of a a round-headed leek in bloom in a dry calcareous meadow.
A longhorn beetle (Stictoleptura cordigera) eating a round-headed leek in bloom.
Slender Burnets mating under a round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside. The female, right, has clearer wings than the male.
Slender Burnets mating under a round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside. The female, right, has clearer wings than the male.
Slender Burnets mating under a round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside. The female, right, has clearer wings than the male.
Zygaena transalpina resting on round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside.
Zygaena transalpina resting on round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside.
A male juvenile of Lily Bush-Cricket cleans its legs on a knapweed flower on the slope of a hill.
A Tachinid Fly ready to fly from his perch, a faded salad burnet, on a sunny hillside. Lot, France.
Adonis Blue female resting on a salad burnet on a dry calcareous hill. Lot, France.
Adonis Blue female resting on a salad burnet on a dry calcareous hill. Lot, France.
This small longhorn beetle I had never seen left me a few seconds to take it on a dry hillside calcicole in the Lot. The adult is floricultural, but only lays at the foot of the mountain seselis. Larvae shall develop in the roots of this plant very present at the place of shooting.
Adonis Blue male resting on a faded scabious on dry calcareous hillside. Lot, France.
Chalkhill Blue male gathering nectar of oregano flowers in a calcareous grassland.
Silver-spotted Skipper resting on a gramineous cob on a sunny calcicole hillside. Lot, France.
Adonis Blue male gathering nectar of water mint flowers in a wet meadow. Lot, France.
Adonis Blue paire mating on a bush branch. Despite his damaged wings, the male, on the left has succeeded in seducing a female.
Adonis Blue paire mating on a bush branch. Despite his damaged wings, the male, on the left has succeeded in seducing a female.
Adonis Blue paire mating on a bush branch. Despite his damaged wings, the male, on the left has succeeded in seducing a female.
Adonis Blue paire mating, female on left, male on right, upon a rock on a steep hillside.
A plasterer bee female making a quick wash on a flower (Inula spiraeifolia ). Lot, France.
Pearly Heath female gathering nectar of thyme (Thymus praecox) on a rocky slope. Lot, France.