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Autumn in Andalucia
gps from the photographs
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Thursday 12th October |
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| We had some cricket nymphs in our room. but they did not sing to us. |
 Our bed |
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 Basin |
 Door and table and chairs |
 A visitor's cabin |
 On the wall in the breakfast area |
 Cymbalophora pudica - Mediterranean Tiger |
Pictures of moths attracted to the hotel lights that we picked off the walls overnight |
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 Sesamia nonagrioides |
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 Mediterranean corn stalk borer |
 Flame shoulder |
 Ocneria rubea - Gypsy Rose
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 Oecanthus dulcisonans |
 Thaumetopoea herculeana (Grass Processionary) |
 Campaea honoraria - Scalloped Barred
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 Spurge Hawkmoth |
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 Geranium Bronze - Cacyreus marshalli |
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 Bougainvillea |
 Palm trunk |
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We stopped by the river to see Zeller's Skippers on the squirting cucumbers. We got photographs, but some of the skippers were 'bald' so not at their best. I saw a reddish orange wasp We enjoyed the Aircon in Alan's car. |
 Small Copper |
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 Ecballium elaterium - squirting cucumber |
We went on to the beach to look for chameleons, we saw 3 found by Bill, Neil and Alan. We also saw a spiky-toed lizard and pancratium maritinum. We found a shadier spot for another excellent lunch |
 Female red-veined darter |
 Zeller's Skipper |
 Dead prickly pear caused by the cochineal beetle |
 Dittrichia viscosa the main nectaring plant for insects at the moment |
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 Prickly pear skeleton |
 reddish orange wasp, too fast, so all I could get |
 The dunes |
 Pistacia lentiscus |
 The beach |
 Lygos monosperma |
 Pancratium maritinum seeds and the plant in flower below
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 Wasp nest |
 Spiky-footed Lizard |
 Chameleon |
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 Everyone took this shot |
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 Male red-veined darter at the sewage ditch |
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 White village |
 View from the chair outside our door |
We had dinner alfresco again watched by geckos; who also kept warm in the lighted lamps. |
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