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

Bee's pollen baskets

Honey bees gather pollen with their limbs, and stuff them in their pollen baskets situated in posterior limbs.

Bee's got company

This small intruder turned out to be a grasshopper larva (= larve de sauterelle).

Caught in a spider web

But be reassured. She managed to escape after about 10 minutes of non-stop efforts.

Bee's back view

Bees' springtime, time to gather nectar

Carpobrotus edulis

Berries tree ?

With spines

Lis flower

More geranium

Tiny flowers

Forget me not

Dianthus