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$This 'streamside butterfly' is our most familiar riverine Odonate. It is a variable species and numerous forms have been named.\n\n\n\n\n\n$

Dragon-fly, view from above, blue - black, big, sitting on a rock, wings spreaded out, USA, Kenai Peninsula

Small insect on the ears of barley, selective focus

Deer jumping fence. Deer herd of stags, doe and fawn in autumn colors

Dragonfly an efficient hunter on fruit tree

A closeup selective focus shot of a honey bee standing on a green plant

$Tot 30-39mm, Ab 25-32mm, HW 19-23mm.\nOur most delicate Lestes, which is normally easily separated by its statue and coloration, although some Iberian populations recall L. barbarous.\nHabitat: A wide variety of seasonally dry shallow and reedy waters in the south, becoming more critical in the north-west, where it is most abundant in heath and bog lakes with peat moss (Sphagnum) and rushes (Juncus).\nFlight Season: Northern populations mostly emerge in July, flying into November.\nDistribution: Widespread in Europe, although seldom the dominant Lestes species. Distribution recall L. barbarous, and also tends to wander like that species, though rarely in similarly great numbers.\n\nThis Species is to be seen in the describe Habitats, but not as common as L. sponsa in the Netherlands.$

A beautiful brown butterfly sits on a blooming oregano.

A male Widow Skimmer dragonfly, Libellula luctuosa, with soft blue wing marking indicating a juvenile in early summer. Photographer Bob Balestri dba Joesboy

A great blue heron surveys its surroundings with its neck fully extended.

A native sugarbag bee flying over a white pignut flower

$Low to medium, rather variable, rhizomatous, hairless perennial with fans of fleshy, sword-shaped leaves, basal often orange-tinged; stem leaves small and bract-like, the upper larger than the lower. Flowers greenish-yellow or orange-yellow, 10-16mmstarry, in a rather lax spike like raceme; filaments of stamens densely hairy. Fruit a small narrow, elliptical capsule, to 12mm long.\nHabitat: Bogs and wet acid heaths and moors, to 1200m.\nFlowering Season: July-September.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except the far north.\nGenerally regarded as poisonous, especially to livestock.\n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation to Ireland in July 2022.$

photo of green fly on plant stem. selective focus

The Black-tailed Skimmer is a narrow-bodied dragonfly that can be seen flying low over the bare gravel and mud around flooded gravel pits and reservoirs.

Mantis is a type of mantis originating from the island of Borneo. It has a unique body shape and is colored like dried leaves to disguise itself for prey.

$Tot: 45-50mm, Ab 30-37mm, Hw 33-38mm.\nIdentification:\nVery similar to O. cancellatum, with which it is found especially in the south-east, and as far west as France. However, it is sleeker, paler and more contrasting. Named for the contrasting white appendages of both sexes.\nBehavior:\nLike O. cancellatum, male often sits on open ground near the water, making very fast, low flights over the water.\nOccurrence:\nDistribution is patchy, but the species is generally not uncommon, stretching to China and Japan.\nHabitat: Open Ponds and Lakes.\nFlight Season: From the end of May to mid-September.\n\nThis nice Skimmer is photographed during a Vacation in France in May 1990. Scanned from a slide.$

An extreme closeup shot of a butterfly with beautifully textured wings sitting on a plant with bubbly effects

Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) on a Dianthus carthusianorum (Carthusian Pink).

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