Natural History Photographs


Valle d'Aosta, Italy
Ville sur Sarre
26, 28 July & 7 August 2018

A series of marked hiking tracks crosses Ville sur Sarre, and so I could quickly leave the road and walk into the fields. The tracks meander through agriculural fields, hedges, and little snippets of uncultivated land. The track I followed on various days quickly ascends the mountain slope, to hit after a km or so at a dirt road. After a few meters on the dirt road, the track continued to the left, entering into somewhat open conifer forest.

Sempervivum arachnoideum tomentosum

Satyrus ferula
Polyommatus
damon
Graphosoma
lineatum


Sempervivum tectorum
Holopogon
nigripennis

Asperula aristata

Odontites luteus
Sempervivum
arachnoideum


Melitaea didyma
Polyommatus
daphnis
Polyommatus
icarus
Polyommatus
damon


Polyommatus daphnis


Astragalus onobrychis
Dysauxes
punctata

Brachodes pumila


Carpoporis spec. Parnassius apollo


Zygaena ephialtes Zygaena carniolica


Dianthus sylvestris


Argynnis paphia f. valesina


Daucus carota with galls in ovaries
induced by Kiefferia pericarpiicola
Odontites luteus


Dasypogon diadema
with prey
Vespula spec.
D. diadema
with prey
Bombus spec.