Large Marsh Grasshopper female discovered near a stream, it lacks a hind leg, which greatly facilitated the approach. Limousin, France.
Green Leek Grasshopper male resting on an oak leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
The genus Ceratina are small carpenter bees, which nest and hibernate sometimes in the hollow stems of plants such as wild angelica or hemp agrimony which are very present in my meadow. They are foraging all kinds of flowers, this male gathers a scabious wood in my wet meadow. Limousin, France.
The genus Ceratina are small carpenter bees, which nest and hibernate sometimes in the hollow stems of plants such as wild angelica or hemp agrimony which are very present in my meadow. They are foraging all kinds of flowers, this male gathers a scabious wood in my wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Mating pair of Silver-spotted Skippers on a shrub in an alpine meadow. Poyols, Drôme, France.
A caterpillar of Spotted Fritillary coming to shedding its skin. Above, the remains of its exoskeleton, its exuviae. Limousin, France.
A caterpillar of Spotted Fritillary coming to shedding its skin. Above, the remains of its exoskeleton, its exuviae. Limousin, France.
Provençal Short-tailed Blue resting on a blade of grass. Calcareous hill near Villefranche de Rouergue in Aveyron.
A female nymph of Sickle-bearing bush-cricket eating a flower of creeping thistle. Calcareous hill near Villefranche de Rouergue in Aveyron.
Apollo female foraging hemp agrimony flowers along a car parking in a mountain pass of Catalan Pyrenees.
Apollo female foraging hemp agrimony flowers along a car parking in a mountain pass of Catalan Pyrenees.
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.
Band-eyed brown horsefly male resting on a nettle leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Dark Green Fritillary gathering nectar from a flower of Tuberous Thistle in an alpine meadow.
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.
Mating pair of Marbled White butterflies on a yarrow flower in a wet meadow. The male on the right is typical, bet the female on the left has an aberrant form, we see only traces of eyespots which are usually visible.
Mating pair of Marbled White butterflies on a scabious flower in an alpine meadow. Vercors, France.
A longhorn beetle that we can only find in non-maintained forests because its larvae like dead tree trunks and branches in contact with the ground. I found this beetle asleep on a scabious on the edge of a steep mixed forest.
The male of the Lesser Purple Emperor has the distinction of having a blue iridescence that appears by exposure to light.
The clytie form for this species has orange stripes on top of its wings while they are white in specimens of Ilia form.
Knapweed fritillary resting on a red clover flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Mating of Marsh fritillaries on a Wood Scabious (Knautia maxima) flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Wood White courtship ; The male stands in front of the female and balance its trunk on either side of the female. If the female is receptive, she raises its abdomen. The female can be difficult because she mates only once and this time, she did not find this male enough attractive.
A small sawfly very characteristic with its red head and yet very difficult to identify. Photos of this species in the imago state are very rare. The larvae are green and like the leaves of alder and birch. This one resting on a periwinkle leaf near a pond. Limousin, France.
White-spotted Rose Beetle love flowers, this seems like a primrose plant that blooms every year in our wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Nymph of Conehead mantis female discovered in the bushes of a dry hillside calcicole. Limousin, France.
Andrena nitida is a mining and solitary bee, a little larger than a honeybee, it is early (appears in March / April) and is particularly fond of pollen of buttercups and dandelions. Here a female (the male is much more svelte) on a leaf of sorrel in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
