Natural History Photographs


Southern coast of Erçek Gölü (Van), Turkey
10 June 2010


Lunch at the southern coast of Erçek Gölü. Some local people came to collect wood - it's amazing how many fitted into this car!

Just at the edge of the lake there is a railway track, which is still in use. The vegetation close to the lake is inundated by a few cm water - just enough to get wet feet and be bitten by too many mosquitos!



Lestes barbarus Enallagma cyathigerum


Stratiomys longicornis


Chalcis sispes


Lejogaster tarsata Ceroxys spec. Tabanus (eggs)


cf. Podalonia ebenina cf. Lixus spec.


Plagionotus cf. floralis Oxylia argentata