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I found these pair of Agapanthia pustulifera beetles mating in Ferula communis flowers.
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Thanks to Ivan (argus) for the ID.
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A fast running beetle of the sandy desert in N Africa and S Israel, predating on insects and especially large ants.
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We found this beautiful bug in Mt Hermon. It has typical dots and stripes.
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We found this beautiful bugs in Mt Hermon. They have typical dots and stripes.They were very active on a Ferula hermonis plant.
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We found this beautiful bugs in Mt Hermon. They have typical dots and stripes.They were very active on a Ferula hermonis plant.
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I found this beautiful caterpillar on Euphorbia plants in the sand dunes of Merzuga. Thanks to Peter (BATU) for the quick ID.
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We found this lovely butterfly on a wild oregano, anybody can assist with an ID?
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It was cool and windy, so this swallowtail did not move much.
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Poekilocerus bufonius is a unique, poisonous desert grasshopper. It has a yellow dotted black colour that allerts other animals not to deal with it. This insect eats foliage of poisonous plants like Calotropis procera (apple of Sodom). Here you can see a mating couple on a bark of Callotropis procera.
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This is a young Poekilocerus bufonius grasshopper, typical to the extreme desert. One of the only insects that can feed on Apocynaceae poisonous plants.
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Pontia glauconome is a common desert butterfly, the caterpillars are feeding on plants of the Resedaceae and Brassicaceae familes. I found this one on a cold afternoon, so it did not fly.
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We found hundreds of Scantius aegyptius bugs gathering on a wild pistachio tree. Anybody knows why they do that ? Ori
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Its cold and lonely