Natural History Photographs


Aşağinarlica (Van), Turkey
11 June 2010


For our lunch break we chose a beatiful and quiet spot - we thought. Within a short time, however, children appeared from who knows where. Apparently, they never had seen someone from outside their own neighborhood, making it very attractive to watch us - much like we watch monkeys in the zoo. When the old man at last understood we were not overjoyed by this unashamed interest, he threw stones to the children to encourage them going elsewhere - a pedagogical device nowadays no longer fashionable in The Netherlands...

The road sides wet with trickling water offered some interesting insects.



Merodon velox


Tabanus spec.


Tabanus spec.


Eumeninae