Natural History Photographs


Crete, Greece
Tria Monastiria
20 April 2017

Second stop on our way from Iraklion to Kerames. Just outside a village were some fallow fields which I explored, and where I found the first Ophrys species.



Asphodelus ramosus


Phlomis spec.


Convolvulus
elegantissimus

Cistus creticus


Ophrys bombyliflora


Eucera spec. Ceratina cucurbina
The bee's head is covered in orchid pollinia,
possibly from an Ophrys species.