Tiny winged bug

Caterpillar

Looking at her face, doesn't it feel as it is wearing glasses ?

Green-veined white butterfly

Ant on yellow flower

More flowers

Natural wall in Batroun

Crabs

Those small crabs master the art of camouflage, you can hardly spot them, usually on a rock, at the junction air/water.

Look at this tiny crab just over the water.

A pipefish

We spotted this fish in Byblos fishing and boating area.
It's a kind of syngnathus, also known as pipefish (in french : aiguille de mer ou poisson trompette).

Tannourine

The oedemera species

This oedemera podagrariae is a female, it has all thin limbs. These insects belong to the order of coleoptera, which means they have sheathed wings : they are supposed to have 2 pairs of wings, the outer pair became hard and protective as a sheath.

This one is a male, it has swellings over thighs. Note the small varied carpet beetle, which is an anthrenus verbasci, usually found in carpets.

And a male oedemera femorata.

Stink bug

this is a graphosoma semipunctatum or semipunctatus ( in french pentatome ponctué). It is a specie of stink bugs (in french = punaise) .
These bugs like hot weather, and they eat the flowers of umbelliferous plants.
The stink bug has company : a false blister beetle ( of the oedemeridae insect family)

Souvenir of our honeymoon

Hollyhock weevils making love

Hollyhock weevils and ant

Don't worry, the ant won't hurt these weevils (in french = charançons).

Notice their long mouth. Weevils eat leaves, some species eat shit (it's true! and they make balls of shit and they roll them to their places)
2 weevils are making love.

Bouar sea rocks