Iphiclides podalirius
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Lycaena virgaureae
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Libelloides coccajus
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Pontia daplidice
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Melitaea parthenoides
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Stethophyma grossum
Stethophyma grossum

Large Marsh Grasshopper female discovered near a stream, it lacks a hind leg, which greatly facilitated the approach. Limousin, France.

Inachis io
Inachis io

European Peacock soaking up the sun on a bramble. Limousin, France.

Mecostethus parapleurus
Mecostethus parapleurus

Green Leek Grasshopper male resting on an oak leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.

Ceratina sp.
Ceratina sp.

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.

Ceratina sp.
Ceratina sp.

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.

Lysandra bellargus
Lysandra bellargus

Adonis Blue male resting in a meadow. Vercors, France.

Hesperia comma
Hesperia comma

Mating pair of Silver-spotted Skippers on a shrub in an alpine meadow. Poyols, Drôme, France.

Episyrphus balteatus
Episyrphus balteatus

Marmelade hoverfly resting on a Cupid's dart. Drome, France.

Melitaea didyma
Melitaea didyma

A caterpillar of Spotted Fritillary coming to shedding its skin. Above, the remains of its exoskeleton, its exuviae. Limousin, France.

Melitaea didyma
Melitaea didyma

A caterpillar of Spotted Fritillary coming to shedding its skin. Above, the remains of its exoskeleton, its exuviae. Limousin, France.

Melitaea didyma
Melitaea didyma

Spotted Fritillaries mating on salad burnet. Lot, France.

Melitaea didyma
Melitaea didyma

Spotted Fritillaries mating on salad burnet. Lot, France.

Melitaea didyma
Melitaea didyma

Spotted Fritillary resting on a flower head alfalfa. Vercors, France.

Melitaea didyma
Melitaea didyma

Spotted Fritillary gathering nectar of knapwwed flower. Limousin, France.

Melitaea didyma
Melitaea didyma

Spotted Fritillary resting in a meadow. Drôme, France.

Cupido alcetas
Cupido alcetas

Provençal Short-tailed Blue resting on a blade of grass. Calcareous hill near Villefranche de Rouergue in Aveyron.

Phaneroptera falcata
Phaneroptera falcata

A female nymph of Sickle-bearing bush-cricket eating a flower of creeping thistle. Calcareous hill near Villefranche de Rouergue in Aveyron.

Parnassius apollo
Parnassius apollo

Apollo female foraging hemp agrimony flowers along a car parking in a mountain pass of Catalan Pyrenees.

Parnassius apollo
Parnassius apollo

Apollo female foraging hemp agrimony flowers along a car parking in a mountain pass of Catalan Pyrenees.

Limenitis reducta
Limenitis reducta

Southern White Admiral resting on a rose leaf in my garden.

Zygaena loti
Zygaena loti

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
Zygaena transalpina

Zygaena transalpina resting on round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside.

Tettigonia viridissima
Tettigonia viridissima

Great Green Bush-Cricket female resting on Brown Knapweed.

Stethophyma grossum
Stethophyma grossum

Large Marsh Grasshopper female resting on sedge in a wet meadow.

Haematopota pluvialis
Haematopota pluvialis

Common Horse Fly female resting in a warm, humid place, my greenhouse tunnel.

Tabanus bromius
Tabanus bromius

Band-eyed brown horsefly male resting on a nettle leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.

Argynnis aglaja
Argynnis aglaja

Dark Green Fritillary gathering nectar from a Wood Scabious flower in a wet meadow.

Argynnis aglaja
Argynnis aglaja

Dark Green Fritillary gathering nectar from a Wood Scabious flower in a wet meadow.

Argynnis aglaja
Argynnis aglaja

Dark Green Fritillary gathering nectar from a flower of Tuberous Thistle in an alpine meadow.

Phytoecia (Musaria) rubropunctata
Phytoecia (Musaria) rubropunctata

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.

Lycaena phlaeas
Lycaena phlaeas

Small Copper resting on a leaf of apple mint in a wet meadow.

Melanargia galathea
Melanargia galathea

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.

Melanargia galathea
Melanargia galathea

Mating pair of Marbled White butterflies on a scabious flower in an alpine meadow. Vercors, France.

Melanargia galathea
Melanargia galathea

Marbled White taken in backlight in a field of lavende. Drôme, France.

Mesosa curculionoides
Mesosa curculionoides

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.

Apatura ilia f. Clytie
Apatura ilia f. Clytie

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.

Melitaea phoebe
Melitaea phoebe

Knapweed fritillary resting on an umbel of yarrow.

Melitaea phoebe
Melitaea phoebe

Knapweed fritillary resting on an umbel of yarrow.

Melitaea phoebe
Melitaea phoebe

Knapweed fritillary resting on a red clover flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.

Calopteryx virgo
Calopteryx virgo

An immature male of Beautiful Demoiselle landed in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.

Euphydryas aurinia
Euphydryas aurinia

Mating of Marsh fritillaries on a Wood Scabious (Knautia maxima) flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.

Calvia quatuordecimguttata
Calvia quatuordecimguttata

Cream-spot ladybird searching aphids on a nettle leaf.

Leptidea sinapsis
Leptidea sinapsis

Wood White gathering nectar of Speedwell flower. Limousin, France.

Leptidea sinapsis
Leptidea sinapsis

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.

Lycaena tityrus
Lycaena tityrus

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

Hemichroa australis
Hemichroa australis

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.

Oxythyrea funesta
Oxythyrea funesta

White-spotted Rose Beetle love flowers, this seems like a primrose plant that blooms every year in our wet meadow. Limousin, France.

Empusa pennata
Empusa pennata

Nymph of Conehead mantis female discovered in the bushes of a dry hillside calcicole. Limousin, France.

Andrena nitida
Andrena nitida

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.

Dorcus parallelipipedus
Dorcus parallelipipedus

Lesser Stag Beetle resting on a spike of gramineous plant near a forest. Limousin, France.

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