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

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

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

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

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

Sooty Copper resting on common bracken in a wet meadow.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meadow Fritillary resting on betony in a wet meadow.

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

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

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

Cosmos in bloom in my garden.

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

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

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

Scarce Copper male resting in an alpine meadow of Vercors.

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

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

Large White resting on apple mint in a wet meadow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Southern White Admiral resting on a coneflower in my garden.

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

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

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

Small Coppers mating in a wet meadow.

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

Sooty Copper male resting in a wet meadow.