Some cool animal species images:
Mosca // Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga maculata), female
Image by Valter Jacinto | Portugal
Location: Europe > Portugal > Algarve
Date Photo Taken: June 14, 2008
Info: It's a NEW species for Portugal!
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Scarce Copper
Image by Darkroom Daze
Male of Scarce Copper butterfly (Lycaena virgaureae Scopoli, 1763) on flowers of Golden Rod (Solidago virgaurea Linnaeus), in the Swiss Alps.
Photographed near the snout of Morteratsch Glacier, Graubünden, Switzerland. There are also two flies here, almost hidden. Altitude c.2000 m
Happy taxonomic coincidence - the species names of the flower ('virgaurea' = Latin for 'golden rod') and the butterfly ('virgaureae' = 'of golden rod') coincide because the butterfly is commonly found on these flowers, though the host plant of the butterfly is actually dock (Rumex).
(However, I took this for the butterfly, so the flowers are slightly out of focus.)
We used this image for our printed Christmas Card in December 2010
Link for butterfly: www.eol.org/pages/264143
Link for flower: www.eol.org/pages/6185350
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Moscas da família Sarcophagidae // Flesh Flies mating (Wohlfahrtia bella)
Image by Valter Jacinto | Portugal
Location: Europe > Portugal > Algarve
Date Photo Taken: June 14, 2008
Info: It's a NEW species for Portugal!
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