A female hoverfly resting on a tomato plant in my garden. A species that is particularly welcome because adults are pollinators and larvae are aphidophagous and therefore eat aphids.
A female hoverfly resting on a tomato plant in my garden. A species that is particularly welcome because adults are pollinators and larvae are aphidophagous and therefore eat aphids.
Splendour Beetles mating in a buttercup flower. Adults of this genus are anthophagous (feeds on flowers) and the larvae feed by burrowing into the wood of oak, willow, maple or chestnut.
Splendour Beetles mating in a buttercup flower. Adults of this genus are anthophagous (feeds on flowers) and the larvae feed by burrowing into the wood of oak, willow, maple or chestnut.
Splendour Beetles mating in a buttercup flower. Adults of this genus are anthophagous (feeds on flowers) and the larvae feed by burrowing into the wood of oak, willow, maple or chestnut.
Splendour Beetles mating in a buttercup flower. Adults of this genus are anthophagous (feeds on flowers) and the larvae feed by burrowing into the wood of oak, willow, maple or chestnut.
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.
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.
A Striped Ladybird, a discreet species that I see for the first time in my area, resting on a leaf near the forest. Limousin, France.
A Striped Ladybird, a discreet species that I see for the first time in my area, resting on a leaf near the forest. Limousin, France.
Footballer Hoverfly female resting on a buttercup leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Footballer Hoverfly female resting on a buttercup leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Footballer Hoverfly female resting on a buttercup leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
White-spotted Rose Beetle love flowers, this seems like a primrose plant that blooms every year in our wet meadow. Limousin, France.
White-spotted Rose Beetle love flowers, this seems like a primrose plant that blooms every year in our wet meadow. Limousin, France.
A tiny male hoverfly gathering nectar of a tiny chickweed flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Violet oil beetle traversing undergrowth in search of food. He loves the leaves of lesser celandine but it is an opportunistic and it tastes all vegetables it finds on its way. Limousin, France.
Violet oil beetle traversing undergrowth in search of food. He loves the leaves of lesser celandine but it is an opportunistic and it tastes all vegetables it finds on its way. Limousin, France.
Violet oil beetle traversing undergrowth in search of food. He loves the leaves of lesser celandine but it is an opportunistic and it tastes all vegetables it finds on its way. Limousin, France.
Violet oil beetle traversing undergrowth in search of food. He loves the leaves of lesser celandine but it is an opportunistic and it tastes all vegetables it finds on its way. Limousin, France.
Violet oil beetle traversing undergrowth in search of food. He loves the leaves of lesser celandine but it is an opportunistic and it tastes all vegetables it finds on its way. Limousin, France.
Violet oil beetle traversing undergrowth in search of food. He loves the leaves of lesser celandine but it is an opportunistic and it tastes all vegetables it finds on its way. 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.
A Long Hoverfly male cleans his legs on a leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.