First, thanks to Paul for the dragonfly ID.
Cheers Chris, we do love those little shield bugs
Cheers Charles for your comments.
Saturday 3rd October 2015.
My last day in Spain today, so we visited the northern end of the Aiguamolls nature reserve, coming in from the EMPURIABRAVA side, on the advice of a lovely French lady we had met on the southern end of the nature reserve a couple of days ago.
Being we had our wives with us and we were all going out for lunch, time was a little in short supply, so it was only a quick visit, which was a shame as there was still plenty flying.
There were many Whites flying mainly Green-veined and plenty of Clouded Yellows too, Small Copper, Speckled Woods, Common Blues and 5/6 Swallowtails.
We also came across a Praying Mantis in amongst all the butterflies, she was keeping a low profile in the bush, obviously after anything she could catch. Many of the b/f's had pieces missing including a 2 winged Speckled Wood, and all the Swallowtails had there tails chewed, was it the Mantis or the wild, noisy Parakeets of which there were 100's.
Also found was a nest of PAPER WASPS (as advised by MIKHAIL last year) I didn't get to close.
Russ
Photo's to follow.