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They two looked much more like ‘our’ Common Blues, certainly in terms of their size than the ones I’d seen previously: - A great start on my return to Cabopino and this was to going to continue. My next sighting though not a butterfly was worthy of recording:- a small umbrella nest structure covered in paper wasps
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Also seen was this interesting Green-eyed wasp which I think is a predatory ground wasp of the genus Tachytes. and another large and commonly seen Grasshopper which I think is Heteracris littoralis. Moving on past a shady side of a large sprawling conifer bush I put up another butterfly. Immediately I thought “Wall”, but it took me some time to find it again (or perhaps was another one?). The butterfly was tucked-in deep inside the conifer as much to do with keeping out of the heat rather than due to my presence. My Lumix FZ-72 was the only camera I could use to get this picture. Then, when I moved it then flew out from the conifer and landed on the deck enabling me to get another couple of shots until (quite sensibly) it decided it was too hot outdoors and went back into the bush
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I took the view that it may have been hunting the lizard and may come back out from the bush to continue where it left off. That proved to be the case although again it was wary of my approach and made for cover every time it crossed open ground. In the end, I settled for part shots (does anyone know how to electronically piece photos together
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Considered common but I felt a real sense of privilege from having seen it in its natural environment in hunting mode
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As regards the threat of being bitten? … you would have to capture it and more or less stick your finger in its mouth to get bitten .. i.e. no threat whatsoever. Continuing with my searching I came across these two beetles which I haven’t identified. The black one looks like a darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae) Pimelia sp. being my guess
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I nearly walked into this web belong to another but darker Argiope lobata wasp spider in its characteristic and striking pose. Back at Las Farolas we discussed our plans to come. Tomorrow we’d be going to Bioparc (zoo) in Fuengirola. My burning wish to go for a big butterfly search in the countryside would have to wait a little longer
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Phil