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Mediterranean garrigue
tiny ant found on a tiny heather blossom
Beetles in copula on a flower which is also their main food source.
First time I see this black and red stripped Cicada in South of France. Between ...
essential component of the garrigue. ...
Front wing are dark brown. Back wing have orange and black spot and white ...
This fly was feeding on a Laserpitium sp., pollinating it in this way.
Big Yellow, dark dragonfly with antennas. Between 10 and 12cm.
This wild Iris, (fam Iridaceae) grows in groups in mediterranean habitat. It ...
Round, evergreen and green-grey looking shrub, thanks to the waxy color of its ...
Black base color, with some hardly noticeable creamy spots on each segment. ...
black and lidless eyes with a vertical pupil. The one (pictured) my son found ...
Aromatic, much-branched and grey-green shrub. Leaves narrow, untoothed and ...
Rounded, evergreen shrub. Leaves elliptical and flat with 3 veins and greyish ...
Bristly, branched and upright perennial. Leaves narrow, lower ones stalked. ...
Scambling scrub with prickly stems. Leaves triangular with a heart-shaped base ...
Dense, evergreen shrub. Unstalked leaves are narrow, sticky above and hairy ...
Imposing and distinctive perennial. Leaves large and feathery, being divided ...
Spreading, hairy annual. Leaves comprise 5 leaflets; terminal one largest. ...
Sticky, aromatic shrub. Narrow leaves are dark green and shiny above but paler ...
Basal leaves oval; narrower leaves sheathe lower part of stem. Flowers comprise ...
Upright, hairless perennial. Leaves narrow and grey-green and basal. Flowers ...
Deciduous shrub with twining stems. Leaves oval; lower ones stalked, those ...
The tall stalks of the urginea pancration do not appear impressive, but close ...
Mastic is a dioecious evergreen shrub or small tree of the pistacio genus ...
Perennial herbaceous plant (height about 50 cm.) in the Brassicaceae family. ...
Flowers of violet color. Capitulum with outer florets larger than the others.
Rather large toad, covered with irregular dark green blotches, on a light-green ...
Hairy biennial with one or more stems with clusters of tubular funnel shaped ...
Robber fly (maybe Machimus chrysitis) with prey (probably caterpillar).
A widespread species of a butterfly, appearing mostly in the spring and laying ...
Much-branched annual with leaves comprising 3-7 pairs of oval leaflets. Flowers ...
Bumblebees are important pollinators existing mostly in the North of Israel. ...
The Large White female caught in the act of laying eggs on a Biscutella pland ...
Aromatic evergreen shrub, needle like leaves, with white or blue flowers.
Painted Lady (♂) on mediterranean creeping thyme (Thymus longicaulis) flowers.
Approx 10 - 12 cm in length. Two pairs pf legs per segment. Shiny ...
Small cricket like insect, possibly a nymph, body length of some 1,5 cm. Mainly ...
