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Empusa pennata

Nymph of Conehead mantis male discovered in the bushes of a dry hillside calcicole.

Anthocharis cardamines

Orange Tip female resting on a cuckooflower in a wet meadow.

Lycaena virgaureae

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

Melanargia russiae

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

Epicallia villica

A cream-spot tiger resting on my door and that I have moved away from my cats on a California Poppy in my garden.

Lycaena tityrus

Sooty Copper resting on common bracken in a wet meadow.

Bombina variegata

Yellow-bellied Toad taking a sunbath in the small pond that we have just set up in our garden. A visitor so rare that I had never seen him around.

Cupido argiades

Short-tailed Blue male resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

Polyommatus hispana

Chalkhill Blue male resting on bird's-foot trefoil in bloom at the edge of a path near the ammonite slab of Digne-les-Bains.

Libelloides coccajus

Owl Sulfur male resting on a campion at the foot of a dry limestone hill.

Libelloides coccajus

Owl Sulfur male resting on a blade of grass at the foot of a dry limestone hill.

Pontia daplidice

Bath White resting on a wild salsify invaded by small snails in a meadow.

Pontia daplidice

Bath White resting on a wild salsify invaded by small snails in a meadow.

Stenurella nigra

A Longhorn beetle eating a spurge. Regional Natural Park of Verdon.

Melitaea parthenoides

Meadow Fritillary resting on a wood scabious in a wet meadow.

Melitaea parthenoides

Meadow Fritillary resting on a wood scabious in a wet meadow.

Melitaea parthenoides

Meadow Fritillary resting on a wood scabious in a wet meadow.

Polygonia c-album

Comma butterfly resting on a thin skirt of bracken fern in a wet meadow.

Pieris brassicae

Large White gathering nectar of a wood scabious flower in a wet meadow.

Calopteryx virgo

A Beautiful Demoiselle male resting on grass in a wet meadow.

Melitaea athalia

Heath Fritillary resting on an elder leaf in a wet meadow.

Melitaea parthenoides

Meadow Fritillary resting on betony in a wet meadow.

Zygaena trifolii

Five-Spot Burnets mating on a grass in a wet meadow.

Melitaea phoebe

Knapweed fritillary resting on a common yarrow in a wet meadow.

Rutpela maculata

Spotted Longhorn on a wood scabious flower in a wet meadow.

Cosmos bipinnatus

Cosmos in bloom in my garden.

Limenitis reducta

Southern White Admiral resting on a leaf of lettuce in my greenhouse.

Coleocentrus excitator

A hymenopteran female of the family Ichneumonidae drinking dew on a leaf in a wet meadow. This species parasitizes longhorn beetle larvae.

Lycaena virgaureae

Scarce Copper female gathering nectar of a common yarrow in an alpine meadow of Vercors.

Lycaena virgaureae

Scarce Copper male resting in an alpine meadow of Vercors.

Erebia aethiops

Scotch Argus gathering nectar of a scabious flower in an alpine meadow. Vercors, France.

Erebia aethiops

Scotch Argus gathering nectar of a scabious flower in an alpine meadow of Vercors.

Pieris brassicae

Large White resting on apple mint in a wet meadow.

Physocephala rufipes

Thick-headed Flies mating in an alpine meadow of Vercors.

Hesperia comma

Silver-spotted Skipper male gathering nectar of a Shining Scabious flower in an alpine meadow of Vercors.

Hesperia comma

Silver-spotted Skipper female gathering nectar of tuberous thistle in an alpine meadow of Vercors.

Hesperia comma

Silver-spotted Skipper female gathering nectar of tuberous thistle in an alpine meadow of Vercors.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male gathering nectar of a Giant Scabious flower in black marls.

Lysandra sp.

Chalkhill Blue (Lysandra hispana ou coridon) male resting on a great scabious.

Hesperia comma

Silver-spotted Skipper gathering nectar of a Giant Scabious flower in black marls.

Limenitis reducta

Southern White Admiral gathering nectar of field eryngo in a meadow.

Polyommatus bellargus

Adonis Blue male gathering nectar of a carline thistle in bloom in a meadow.

Limenitis reducta

Southern White Admiral resting on a coneflower in my garden.

Limenitis reducta

Southern White Admiral gathering nectar of a cosmos flower in my garden.

Halictus scabiosae

Sweet bees, female and male, gathering nectar together of a brown knapweed flower in a wet meadow.

Bombus lapidarius

Red-tailed bumblebee female gathering nectar of zinnia flower in my garden.

Lycaena phlaeas

Small Coppers mating in a wet meadow.

Gonepteryx rhamni

Brimstone gathering nectar of a flower of fainbow pink in my garden.

Lycaena tityrus

Sooty Copper male resting in a wet meadow.

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue male resting on a apple mint in a wet meadow.