A morning ambling around the lanes up behind the hotel, finding plenty of orchids along the way. A
handful of
Orchis punctulata were just hanging on around the edge of what was once a fantastic olive grove filled with orchids, now scraped bare and (even more ominously) the parking place for a bulldozer... Slightly more positive was the sight of a rough field full of
Serapias orchids with all four local species present, including the delicate local endemic
S. aphrodite.But for me, the highlight of today wasn't an orchid or a bird. It was a lovely male jumping bristletail
Silvestrichilis trispina, a very primitive insect of the order Archaeognatha. Exciting, honest!
Ranunculus asiaticus
Acrida hungarica, a grasshopper pretending to be a stick insect pretending to be a stick...
Silvestrichilis trispina. A very active little male... do creepy crawlies get much cooler than this??
Adonis annua. Any day with
Adonis is a good day.
Ranunculus asiaticus
Acrida hungarica, a grasshopper pretending to be a stick insect pretending to be a stick...
Silvestrichilis trispina. A very active little male... do creepy crawlies get much cooler than this??
Adonis annua. Any day with Adonis is a good day.
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