Pyrénées moutains

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Lysandra sp.

Chalkhill Blue (Lysandra hispana ou coridon) male resting in a meadow.Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Lysandra sp.

Chalkhill Blue (Lysandra hispana ou coridon) male resting in a meadow.Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Polyommatus escheri

Escher's Blue female resting in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Lachnaia pubescens

Leaf Beetle resting on a shrub. Catalan Pyrenees, France.
The adult lives in trees while the larvae confused with plants by ants are introduced by it in the anthill. The larvae then produce a scabbard with waste and excrement and feed on debris and brood. After the last molt, they discreetly out of the nest to fly to the trees.

Mylabris quadripunctata

A Blister Beetle eating a Asteraceae flower in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Delphinium verdunense

Larkspur in bloom in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.
Plant species protected at national level.

Delphinium verdunense

Larkspur in bloom in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.
Plant species protected at national level.

Ephippiger Sp.

Saddle-backed Bush Cricket male resting in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male resting in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male gathering nectar of a fielf eryngo, in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Polyommatus icarus - Eristalis sp.

Common Blue male gathering nectar, in the company of an hoverfly, of a fielf eryngo, in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Melanargia lachesis

Iberian marbled gathering nectar of a Greater knapweed flower in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Hemithea aestivaria

Common emerald resting in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Melanargia lachesis

Iberian marbled resting on a thistle flower in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male resting in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Lycaena alciphron

Purple-Shot Copper male resting on a Pyrenean eryngo. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Lycaena virgaureae

Scarce Copper male resting on a Pyrenean eryngo. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Laeosopis roboris

Spanish purple hairstreak gathering nectar on a Pyrenean Eryngo flower. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Ephippiger Sp.

Saddle-backed Bush Cricket male resting in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Laeosopis roboris

Spanish purple hairstreak resting on a creeping thistle flower. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Melanargia russiae

Esper's marbled white male resting on a scabious flower in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Melanargia russiae

Esper's marbled white female resting in a meadow. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Melanargia lachesis

Iberian marbled white resting on a flower in a meadow. Pyrénées Orientales, France.

Eryngium bourgatii

Pyrenean Eryngo in bloom at the edge of a path. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Polygonia c-album

Comma butterfly gathering nectar of a woolly thistle. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Satyrium spini

Blue Spot Hairstreak resting on lady's bedstraw flowers. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Coenonympha arcania

Pearly Heath resting at the edge of a path. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Melitaea didyma

Spotted Fritillary resting at the edge of a path. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Laeosopis roboris

Thècle du frêne posé sur une achillée millefeuille. Parc Naturel Régional des Pyrénées Catalanes.

Aconitum napellus

Aconit napel en fleur au bord d'un chemin. Plateau du Capcir, Pyrénées Orientales...Monkshood in bloom at the edge of a path. Plateau of Capcir, Pyrenees.

Polyommatus icarus f. icarinus

Common blue male resting at the edge of a path. Plateau of Capcir, Pyrenees.

Melitaea didyma

Spotted Fritillary male gathering nectar a scabious flower at the edge of a path. Plateau of Capcir, Pyrenees.

Mylabris flexuosa

Blister beetle tasting an asteraceae at the edge of a road in the Pyrenees. Pass Pailhère, Aude, France.

Dianthus hyssopifolius

Fringed Pink blooming at the edge of a road in the Pyrenees. Pass Pailhère, Aude, France.

Tenthredo sp.

A sawfly gathering nectar of an umbellifer at the edge of a road in the Pyrenees. Pass Pailhère, Aude, France.

Chrysotoxum sp.

Chrysotoxum female gathering nectar of an asteraceae at the edge of a road in the Pyrenees. Pass Pailhère, Aude, France.

Cercopis sanguinolenta

Froghopper resting in the vegetation at the edge of a mountain road. Pass Pailhère, Aude, France.

Mylabris flexuosa

Blister beetle tasting an asteraceae at the edge of a road in the Pyrenees. Pass Pailhère, Aude, France.

Melitaea didyma

Spotted Fritillary female gathering nectar of a knapweed flower. Mountain pass of Pailhère, Aude, France.