Pyrenees Day 3 Afternoon On Way Down From Troumouse

The rain waited until lunch time and then cleared again fairly quickly but had the affect of slowing down the insects. Butterflies include  Silver-Studded Blue, Heath Fritillary, Black-Veined White and Lesser Marbled Fritillary. The flowers are Burnt Orchid and Astrantia. Insects Fire Bug, a black Weevil Beetle and Hoverfly Heliophilus species (exact IDs to follow)

 

Pyrenees Day 3 Morning Cirque de Troumouse

As the weather was forecast fairly good, we decided to do the walk into the Cirque de Troumouse - a beautiful route across a stream that had Pyrenneean Salamanders (and Caddis flies). While others went further to look in vain for the Alpine Accentor, I wandered around the meadows photographing the flowers  - not as plentiful as Wengen area but still attractive.

 

Pyrenees Day 2 Afternoon Babbling Brooks and Hot River beds

We stopped a few times on the way down from Haut de Camp by streams and added a few dragons to the list - Beautiful Demoiselle, Sombre Golden Ringed and Golden Ringed. Also shown astriking Large Chequered Skipper and amazing coloured spider. In the river bed area (Gabe de Pau), a beautiful Fiery Clearwing and a very agile Bee Fly with striped body.

 

Pyrenees Day 2 Morning Haut de Camp

We stopped first to explore a wonderful outcrop of rock covered in meadow flowers and home to dozens of Hummingbird Hawk Moths - just amazed by the way that they control the wings independently, flexing the wing angle and shape. Lots of other insects to investigate and record.

Pyrenees Day 1 Afternoon Pont de Saugue

Thunderstorms were forecast for the afternoon but the rain held off till around 4pm. We drove up to Pont de Saugue stopping en route to sample the insect life. I particularly liked the full frontal Bumblebee and Chafer. Many of the photos that I took for a particular insect turned out to have many more captured by the camera - the Shieldbug is in the web of a small spider together with a Leaf hopper. We were finally rained off and hurried back to the hotel before the downpour .