It was a warm but cloudy Sunday. I spent a couple of hours outdoors and then the rain started falling. In this post, I'm gonna show you what I photographed while walking around the coastal area called Marlera, a place I have visited quite often lately.
In this opening shot, I'm presenting my good old car parked near the entrance to an abandoned stone quarry. In the following photograph ...
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... you can see a green shield bug and the friend who was there with me. The southern green shield bug (Nezara viridula) was resting on the transparent surface provided by my car's window so it looked like the insect was floating in the air without even using its wings. My friend is visible in the background, slightly blurred behind the glass.
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The glass helped create an interesting illusion in this photograph. It looks like the shield bug, much bigger than in reality is climbing from my friend's knee to her hand.
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In the third and last of these funny, deceptive shots, an oversized shield bug is resting on my friend's hand.
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Here you can take a quick look at the reeds in front of my car, about twenty meters from the place where I stood, while in the following photograph ...
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... I zoomed in on the reeds about fifty or sixty meters behind my car.
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At some point, a small plane passed above my head. A few minutes later ...
... I noticed something weird in the sky above the northwestern part of the horizon. It looked like a single thread, a rope, or a hair hanging from the thick layer of clouds. When I zoomed in ...
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... I recognized a waterspout wind that looked like a little tornado. The thing was forming somewhere in the proximity of the city of Pula.
Here you can see the pretty big Helix pomatia snail that was resting, sealed in its lovely spiral shell, on one of the many wild fennel plants not far from my car.
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This is the Psylliodes cuprea, a tiny flea beetle from the Chrysomelidae family. Flea beetles are small leaf beetles with strong, elongated hind legs that can jump like fleas. Their shape and size also resemble those of fleas. The Psylliodes cuprea shown in this post ...
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... was photographed on my friend's arm.
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Here you can see the same shiny little beetle cleaning one of its legs.
