Checkered beetle (Trichodes alvearius) with honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Ten Metres from Home 1.  (2020)
Checkered beetle (Trichodes alvearius) with honey bee (Apis mellifera)seeking nectar on an Eryngium campestre flower . Podere Montecucco, Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. June 2020


Also in: Ten Metres from Home 1. (2020)

Centrocoris variegatus A conspicuously shaped bug
Checkered beetle (Trichodes alvearius
White-tailed bumble bee ♂︎ (Bombus leucorum)
Crab spider (Misumena vatia) ♀︎ with its coccoon anchored to a leaf of Eryngium
Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus)
Digger wasp (Sphex flavipennis).
Crab spider (Thmoisus onustus) with its prey, a Queen of Spain Fritillary (Issonia lathoria)
The oak hawk (Marumba quercus )
The oak hawk (Marumba quercus )
Crab spider (Thomisus onustus) ♀︎
European garden spider (Araneus diadematus
Convolvulus hawk (Herse convolvulii) -
Buff tip ( Phalera bucephala)
Hairy Scolid wasp (Scolia hirta)
Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma,) ♂︎