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Hello,

I would like to know if the orchid in the picture is Ophrys caesiella? There was no red underneath.

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Thanks for the help

Thanks for the reply and compliments on the photo. So every fusca flowering this time of the year must be mesaritica/iricolor . Am I correct? I use a Nikon D90. I have been photographing flowers and Insects for the last couple of years and I have paid a special interest to Orchids. To this ...

Happy Christmas to everyone. Today I took the opportunaty to go for a walk in the countryside. I came across these orchids and I would believe they are Orphys fusca but a quick search on this website, I found out that they could also be Ophrys mesaritica . Would it be possible to identify this ...

The colour of the Nymphs can differ greatly. I nymph from the first picture is probably a Egyptian Grasshopper. Their nymphs can be from bright green to the redish colour as in the picture The second photo is a Blue-winged Grasshopper (Sphingonotus caerulans).

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Thank you

Indeed, very nice! It seems there are quite alot around at the moment.

Great find. I have never encountered any of the yellow forms so far. Well done.

Yes very fond

On another note
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That grasshopper is a Eyprepocnemis plorans and not S. coerulans

Our publications list both g. brunneus and g. mollis. But it's very difficult to distinguish between them. They can be identified from the shape of the outer wing and the song.

Let me find out a bit more on our species and i'll let you know..

Again Glyptobothrus sp.

This is a Glypotobothrus sp.

Recently the genus Chorthippus have been split into Glypotobothrus and Chorthippus. The difference is that the Glypotobothrus species have a widened medial area on the tegminae while the Chorthippus do not.[/img]

Calliptamus barbarus