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Small Copper foraging yarrow flower in a wet meadow. Beynat, Limousin, France.

Praying mantis male resting on a wall in my garden.

.Brimstone gathering nectar of a blanket flower in my garden.

Orange Ladybird visiting a nettle leaf in my garden.

Red Admiral gathering nectar of zinnia flower in my garden.

Sooty Copper resting on a blade of grass in a wet meadow.

Knapweed fritillary resting on a knapweed flower in a calcareous meadow.

A fairly rare female hoverfly gathering nectar of a giant scabious flower in a wasteland near marls. The adult is floricole, the larvae develop in the rotted wood. It serves as a taxi (phoresy) to a tiny arachnid that look like a scorpion (pseudoscorpion). He uses his pedipalpes to cling to the insects that transport him to places where he will find food. They feed on litter of small arthropods, often acarines and springtails.

A fairly rare female hoverfly gathering nectar of a giant scabious flower in a wasteland near marls. The adult is floricole, the larvae develop in the rotted wood. It serves as a taxi (phoresy) to a tiny arachnid that look like a scorpion (pseudoscorpion). He uses his pedipalpes to cling to the insects that transport him to places where he will find food. They feed on litter of small arthropods, often acarines and springtails.

Adonis Blue male resting on a brown knapweed.

Chalkhill Blue (Lysandra hispana ou coridon) male resting on a brown knapweed.

Nymph of Conehead mantis female found in a small wasteland near the marls in the Diois. It has been several years that I regularly frequent the small valley of Chapias and it is nevertheless my first encounter with this species.

Nymph of Conehead mantis female found in a small wasteland near the marls in the Diois. It has been several years that I regularly frequent the small valley of Chapias and it is nevertheless my first encounter with this species.

Garden Tiger moth found in front of my door and I moved to place it high on a coneflower.

Glanville Fritillary resting on apple mint in a wet meadow.

Glanville Fritillaries mating on an apple mint in a wet meadow.

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

Buff-tip found on my door and moved on a Pink flower in my garden.

Plum Lappet found in the morning on my door and moved on a coneflower.

Plum Lappet found found in the morning on my front door.

Plum Lappet found in the morning on my door and moved on a Blanket Flower.

Plum Lappet found in the morning on my door and moved on a coneflower.

Oak eggar moth found in the morning on my front door.

Oak eggar moth found in the morning on my front door and moved on a rudbeckia away from the claws of my cats.

Southern White Admiral gathering nectar of coneflower in my garden.

Southern White Admiral gathering nectar of Cupid's paintbrush flower in my garden.

Broad-bordered bee hawk-moth male resting on a zinnia leaf in my garden.

Red-brown Longhorn Beetle female comfortably installed under a wild carrot umbel in my garden.

High Brown Fritillary male gathering nectar of a french marigold flower in my garden.

.High Brown Fritillary female resting on apple mint in a wet meadow.

Red Admiral gathering nectar of a coneflower in my garden.

Red Admiral gathering nectar of a coneflower in my garden.

Common Blue male resting on a leaf in a wet meadow.

A crab spider on the lookout in a burnt orchid (Neotinea ustulata).

Summer chafer climbing on an apple mint in a wet meadow.

Comma butterfly landed in a wet meadow.

Sooty Copper resting on apple mint in a wet meadow.

Mazarine Blue male resting in my garden.

Common Blue male gathering nectar of a cornflower in my garden.

Scarce Swallowtail gathering nectar of a zinnia flower in my garden.

Scarce Swallowtail gathering nectar of a zinnia flower in my garden.

Sombre Goldenring dragonfly male resting on a poppy in my garden.

Hoplia coerulea male resting on a red clover flower in a wet meadow.

Marbled White female gathering nectar of a knapweed flower in a wet meadow.

Mating pair of Small Skippers on a knapweed bud in a wet meadow.

A hymenoptera of the Sphecidae family, the golden digger wasp, asleep on a flower of persian jewel in my garden.