Natural History Photographs




Our first stop on the road from Diyarbakir to Ahlat was in Bismil, where we paused in an orchard near a river. Although the orchard could hardly be seen as Nature, there were some nice insects to be photographed.

Onychogomphus lefebvrii
Nederlands:Vale tanglibel
English:Pale Pincertail
Syritta pipiens
Authority:(Linnaeus, 1758)
Nederlands:Menuetzweefvlieg
Deutsch:Gemeine Keulenschwebfliege
Norsk:kompostblomsterflue
Svenska:kompostblomfluga
Myennis spec.
On oozing wound in the trunk of a small Poplar tree.
Asilidae
Nederlands:Roofvliegen
English:Robber flies, Assassin flies
Deutsch:Raubfliegen, Jagdfliegen