Natural History Photographs


Taurus mountains

29 May 2008


Landscape at first site





Landscape at second site





Lunch break in the shade of pine forest





Wasps & Bees



Megascolia maculata maculata




Scolia spec.



Megachile cf. parietina





Flies



Asilidae: Dasypogon spec.



Promachus spec.



Tabanidae: Philipomyia aprica/graeca



Bombyliidae: Phthiria spec.



Calliphoridae: Rhyncomya spec.





Butterflies



Gonepteryx farinosa



Tarucus balkanicus



Aricia eurypilus
ovipositing female ovipositing female



Argynnis pandora



Chazara briseis



Melanargia titea



Hipparchia syriaca



Carcharodus orientalis





Damselflies & Dragonflies

Epallage fatime





Neuroptera

Nemoptera spec.