The weather was hot & sunny, and, like many times before & since that hot summer day in 2016, I spent the afternoon outdoors, in the coastal meadows a couple of kilometers from the village of Liznjan.

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In today's post, I'm about to show you some insects and plants I photographed there using a small (and pretty bad) compact camera.

Here you can see a butterfly from the Pieridae family. Pontia edusa is the name of the species. In the following photograph ...

... you can see a bunch of dry plants that have produced a multitude of fluffy seeds.

I wasn't able to identify the species.

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This is the common green lacewing (Chrysoperla carnea)

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Here you can see the eggs laid by the female green lacewing.

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They are attached to the vegetation through slender stalks that can keep each larva at a safe distance from the others. The predatory larvae are prone to cannibalism when they hatch.

Here you can see a mantis that was posing on my hand.

This is the male of the European mantis (Mantis religiosa).

I spent some time observing a dragonfly that was flying around and always returning to rest on the same twig by the side of the dusty road surrounded by the dense growth of various shrubs.

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At one point the predatory insect returned with a prey. The dragonfly has caught a fly.

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In this set of four photographs, you can observe the Sympetrum vulgatum, a dragonfly from the Libellulidae family, having a snack.

It was an interesting encounter and despite the low quality of the shots due to the same kind of camera quality, I was very satisfied with what I caught on that occasion.

These are the leaves of the Smilax aspera plant. In the following photograph ...

... you can take a better look at the shadow of the stems and thorns projected on one of those leaves.

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This Calliptamus italicus grasshopper was photographed on the rocks, closer to the sea.

This is the Calystegia silvatica flower.

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Calystegia silvatica is a climbing plant that often covers the shrubs along the dusty unpaved roads in this area.

I photographed quite a few of those lovely white flowers on the 13th of August 2016.

Flies were feeding on nectar in the center of the flowers.

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These are flies from the Syrphidae family.

Episyrphus balteatus is the name of the species.

As you can see ...

... I photographed quite a few Episyrphus balteatus flies on the 13th of August 2016.

Lasy beetles were mating in the middle of the meadow.

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This small snail was photographed on the blackberry shrub. The same can be said about the small moth shown in the following shot.

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Yep. You can see the moth in the central part of the photograph. Especially if you enlarge the picture by clicking on it. This is the Plutella xylostella. Commonly known as the diamondback moth. A species from the Plutellidae family.

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Here you can see the interesting minuscule caterpillar that somehow fell into the palm of my hand. Probably while I was walking under some trees. The following photograph ...