Today I'm about to show you a small collection of photographs taken during the summer of 2016. The post is prevalently about insects. Have a good viewing.
In this opening photograph, you can see an interesting dung beetle from the genus Copris in the Scarabaeidae family that was posing on the palm of my hand, early n the morning on the 7th of August 2016. I can't tell you what species exactly this is because today while preparing this post, I found on the Internet a few very similar ones that could be present in my area. The photograph was taken in front of my house. The beetle was resting on the front facade, near the entrance. It probably ended up there the night before, attracted by the light. Some minutes later ...
... I left the beautiful, rhinoceros-like beetle on one of the branches of the elderberry tree in my yard. I encountered this species only two or three times in my life. The evening sky, shown in the following shot ...
... was photographed ten days later, in the coastal area called Marlera, about seven kilometers from my hometown.
On the evening of the 26th of August, I was in Marlera again. And I photographed some insects on that occasion. Here you can see a group of Halictus scabiosae males. These prevalently solitary bees congregate in the evening to spend the night in groups on the dry herbaceous plants of the coastal meadows.
These two wasps from the genus Sphex in the Sphecidae family were also getting ready to sleep.
Here you can see a fly and a beetle. The beetle belongs to the Elateridae family, and the predatory fly is part of the Asilidae family. These two insects
don't have much in common but the photographs do. Both shots are blurred and far from good quality. But believe me when I tell you that the quality could have been much worse considering the low light conditions at the end of that hot summer day.
On the 5th of August, I visited the Nature Park Cape Kamenjak, the southern cape of Istra. That place is only about eight kilometers from where I live. I took this funny selfie there.
I also took a very up-close look at this leaf on that occasion ...
... and I photographed the young, wingless mantis shown in this last picture.
