Misumena vatia
Finally got round to posting a few photographs from my Corfu trip last month!
Southern festoon (Zerynthia polyxena) larvae were everywhere on Aristolochia, must have missed the adults?
Number 2 found this assassin bug (Rhynocoris iracundus) on a walk along the coast.
Fireflies were everywhere at night around our riverside accommodation.
Orchids were reasonably abundant but confusing...
Calopteryx virgo
Seeing blue chaser (Libellulla fulva) is always a highlight.
The primary reason we went to Corfu was to track down some critically endangered Greek red damsels (Pyrrhosoma elisabethae), which we managed to do. Only one site seems to remain on Corfu sadly.
I was very pleased to finally catch up with Grecian copper (Lycaena ottomana) at the damsel site.
Birds were spotted during the week, invariably common migrants like this great reed warbler.
We only recorded ten species of Odonates, with most being recorded away from water like this immature Crocothemis.
Egyptian grasshoppers (Anacridium aegyptium) were egg-laying on all the sandy tracks we walked.
The kids enjoyed finding tortoises on the trip, all were the expected Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni) until we found this big marginated tortoise (Testudo marginata) on the walk up Mt Pantokrator. Perhaps a released pet? This species does occur on the nearby mainland though.
Another surprise on Corfu is the presence (again on Pantokrator) of chukar. Not present according to BWP but presumably must have been introduced for hunting?
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