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Autumn in Andalucia

gps from the photographs

Friday 13th October We photographed moths after breakfast.

Antlion perfectly camouflaged

Underside of a Crimson Speckled moth

Nut weevil on a rose

Spodoptera littoralis - Mediterranean Brocade

Green Shield bugs - Acrosternum heegeri


Sphodromantis viridis - African Green mantis

Large Conehead cricket

Scopula /wave?

Longhorn beetle - Phoracantha recurva

Thaumetopoea herculeana - Grass Processionary

We visited the Zellers' site again

Crimson speckled moth

Meadow brown

Zeller's skipper

Prickly pear killed by the cochineal beetle

Cotton plant

Ecballium elaterium the plant of the holiday

Crimson Speckled moth caterpillar

Zeller's skipper

Field of cotton

Violet dropwing

Male

The gang photographing a violet dropwing; picture by Teresa

Female violet dropwing

Cotton flowers

Prickly pear sculpture

We drove past rice fields with storks and egrets. We had lunch on a limestone hill with a view over the sea & griffon vultures

Bullrushes

Dyke

It is windy

The cows are watching

Dried out lake

Fan-tailed Warbler

Sluice gate

Healthy prickly pear

Polygonum equisetiforme

Rice fields

Wind power

Griffon vultures

Coast

Limestone outcrop

Picnic - one woman doing all the work...

We visited one of Teresa's friends and enjoyed a cup of tea with oat milk which was a first. There were a couple of handsome horses and monarchs in an adjacent field.

Original house

The monarch or wanderer butterfly's caterpillar on Gomphocarpus fruticosus

Horses

Long tailed Blue

Gomphocarpus fruticosus


I waited by the asclepias curassavica for the monarch to come and feed			Another site