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Beautiful birds from Warsaw ZOO.

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Coreus marginatus

I was a bit afraid of this insect until I saw it from close-up. It’s a herbivorous species of True Bug, commonly knows as dock bug.

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Triops australiensis digging in sand to lay eggs.

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Metrioptera roeseli

A female Roesel’s bush-cricket cleaning her leg.

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Black cats are gorgeous. 

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So many cats in my life.

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Autographa gamma

The moth in second photo is the mother of caterpillar from the first one. The Silver Y is medium-sized moth common in Europe, parts of Asia and North Africa. It can produce up to four generations in one year but only if conditions are particularly good.  They feed on a wide variety of low-growing plants - I found a large number of caterpillars on Ocimum and Mentha.

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Triops australiensis

This living fossil is sometimes called shield shrimp. Triops australiensis is native to Australia, but other species of shield shrimps can be found nearly all around the world. It inhabits temporary pools of water and due to this after hatching from egg it develops rapidly to adulthood.

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Just a kitty.

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Bufo viridis

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Hyla arborea

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Coenagrion sp. Another cute damselfly. It’s blue color suggests that it’s adult male.

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Coenagrion sp. Cute, little damselfly.  The color suggests that it is an adult female. It’s impossible not to love her.

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Bufo viridis

A very beautiful and common species of toad found in mainland Europe and Egypt. They live even in urban areas - that’s where I found the one from the photo Their total population is decreasing. In Poland (my homeland) they are protected just like every other species of amphibians.

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Harmonia axyridis

Asian species of beetle belonging to Coccinellidae family. It has been introduced to North America and Europe to control aphids and scale insects. Commonly known as harlequin ladybird because it occurs in many different color forms: yellow, orange and red with black spots or black with red spots. The number of spots varies between 0 and 23.

Ladybird in this photo is orange with about 20 black spots.

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Harmonia axyridis Asian species of beetle belonging to Coccinellidae family. It has been introduced to North America and Europe to control aphids and scale insects. Commonly known as harlequin ladybird because it occurs in many different color forms: yellow, orange and red with black spots or black with red spots. The number of spots varies between 0 and 23. Ladybird on the photo had only two small spots.