INSECTS AND GARBAGE IN BETWEEN POMER AND THE SEA

Pomer is a village across the bay from my hometown. I have only a couple of kilometers of walking or driving to get there, and if I decide to swim - is even closer. Less than a kilometer. Eight hundred meters or so. Today I stopped less than a kilometer from the village and took a walk down one of quite a few narrow, unpaved roads that lead from that area just outside the village to the shallow sea of the bay.

In this post, you'll see five insects ( I mean, five species) ...

... one spider ( literally) ...

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... and a bit of garbage that I photographed along the way. The garbage consisted of some used furniture which made that little corner of the bush look like a functional living room that remained here after the rest of the house including the walls, the roof, the pavement, and all the other rooms was somehow erased, disintegrated, or teleported to some other place in the vast and mysterious universe.

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Tree heather (Erica arborea) was one of the plants that formed the green walls around that outdoor living room.

Here you can see the Spilostethus saxatilis, a bug from the Lygaeidae family, on the Tree heather twig.

Fifty or sixty meters further, on some dried-out grass, I came across another bug.

This is the young nymph of the Neottiglossa pusilla shield bug.

Soon I found a couple of adults on the nearby grass. After taking these three photographs using the flash, I decided to change the settings of my camera to fit the shooting in natural light ...

... because only that way you can see the metallic shine of the nymph in the photograph.

These bugs feed on the juices of various types of grass. In this dry period when there's nothing to suck from the stem and leaves, the seeds provide the daily meal.

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After some more walking, another fifty meters or so ...

... I stopped by another plant. The Euphorbia cyparissias. Commonly known as the Cypress spurge.

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I found a group of small beetles among the tiny flowers of that plant.

On the foliage under the flowers, I photographed this crab spider, the Thomisus onustus.

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These is the Variimorda villosa ...

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... a species from the Mordellidae family. Beetles from that family are commonly known as the Tumbling flower beetles.

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They feed mainly on pollen, but sometimes, on some plants, you can see them chew the soft parts of the flower. Some beetles in this group, photographed on the spurge, were actively feeding ...

... while some others were resting under the flowers.

Here you can see another tiny pollen eater.

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This is the Bruchidius villosus, a beetle from the Bruchidae family.

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I photographed only one more insect before walking back to the car and driving back home. This is some small wasp.

The family is Ichneumonidae, but I wasn't able to identify the species.

The following links will take you to the sites with more information about the protagonists of this post. I found some stuff about them there.
https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Pentatomidae/neottiglossa_pusilla.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordellidae
https://www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/enFSearch.cgi?Fam=Bruchidae
https://www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/enFSearch.cgi?Fam=Mordellidae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonidae

AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.



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I always salute your outstanding photographic works

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Your posts are really awesome. The photography immediately conveys the beauty of what you're talking about. Much is learned from your post. The insects look amazing and you have photographed them beautifully.

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Always great shots and with a great cast of characters. Wish I could chill in that 'living room' 😂😎

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very nice macro shots , have a great day

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You're obviously passionate about macro photography.

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some of these insects are very beautiful and attractive and taken in such detail that they look so cool and amazing...

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