Mating of six-spot burnets on the ramparts of the citadel of Mont-Louis in the Pyrenees.
Zygaena transalpina mating on a grass where they will spend a romantic night. Gard, France.
Adonis Blue male and Burnet moths gathering nectar of a giant scabious flower in black marl of Diois. Drôme, France.
Adonis Blue male and Burnet moths gathering nectar of a giant scabious flower in black marl of Diois. Drôme, France.
A Meadow Brown ant a Burnet Moth gathering nectar of a Greater knapweed flower in a dry limestone meadow. Diois, France.
Slender Burnets mating under a round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside. The female, right, has clearer wings than the male.
Slender Burnets mating under a round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside. The female, right, has clearer wings than the male.
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.
Zygaena transalpina resting on round-headed leek in bloom on a calcareous hillside.
Slender Burnet male resting on a grass in company with a shield bug (Eurygaster sp.) in a calcareous meadow.
Slender Burnets mating on a grass in an alpine meadow. The female has her wings lighter than the male.
Jordanita sp. male resting on a Blue Aphyllanthes flower. This little moth is a zyganidae moth and Procrinidae subfamily. This subfamily is composed of closely related species indistinguishable from a photograph.
The distinction between the Transparent Burnet (Zygaena purpuralis) and Zygaena minos can not be realized on picture but only by examination of the genitalia.
