Spotting chafers
We’re walking in the heat through pungent herbs, surrounded by butterflies and day-flying moths with Lesser Kestrels overhead. We’re in Matera in the south of Italy.
I particularly adore these large and very pale long-stalked dandelion-like flowers. I’ve still not identified them:
I find them ever-so-slightly hypnotic:
One has a Mediterranean Spotted Chafer Oxythyrea funesta on it:
We saw them here last year:
Here’s another:
They are busy everywhere here, clinging to flowers:
I don’t think I’ll be doing much flower photography today. It’ll be beetle photography instead:
