Natural History Photographs





The third place we stopped was along a quite river, with a lush vegetation. Cows took advantage of this by browsing the vegetation in the river! Along the river were reed beds with Soldierflies. Also I heared sizable flies passing by at close to the speed of sound, my hunch is this were Horse flies. Near by was a drinking pool for cattle, around which plenty bushes of Christ's Thorn, Paliurus spina-christi.

Photo use: courtesy of Hans Lenten
Stratiomys chamaeleon
Authority:(Linnaeus, 1758)
Nederlands:Kalklangsprietwapenvlieg
English:clubbed general
Coenagrion ornatum
Authority:(Selys, 1850)
Nederlands:Vogelwaterjuffer
English:Ornate Bluet
Deutsch:Vogel-Azurjungfer
Svenska:Fågelflickslända
Français:Agrion orné
Italiano:Azzurrina balcanica
Tarucus balkanicus
Authority:(Freyer, 1844)
English:Little Tiger Blue