4-1-2015 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - MEDITERRANEAN SPOTTED CHAFER (Oxythyrea funesta)

Common name “White spotted rose beetle”.

This beetle is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, and in the Near East.

Larvae are up to 30 mm long, they feed on plant roots and can remain until next spring in the soil.

The adults appear early in the spring, they grow up to 8–12 millimetres (0.31–0.47 in) and can mostly be encountered from May through July. They are considered an insect pest that do not just feed on pollen, but rode the floral organs, especially damaging light in color buds and flowers.

Their colour is black, more or less bronzed. Most of the specimens show six white spots in two longitudinal rows on the pronotum and many others on the elytra. They are completely covered with white pubescence (easily visible in profile). Older specimens usually have no hairs, as they are rubbed off with time.

31-12-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - HOUSE SPARROW (MALE) (Passer domesticus)

29-12-2014 RIVER JUCAR, VALENCIA - GREAT CRESTED GREBE (Podiceps cristatus)

                                    https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4208-Podiceps-cristatus

29-12-2014 RIVER JUCAR, VALENCIA - BLACK REDSTART (MALE) (Phoenicurus ochruros)

25-12-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - HOUSE SPARROW (MALE) (Passer domesticus)

4-12-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - HOUSE SPARROW (FEMALE) (Passer domesticus)

13-5-2015 EBRO DELTA, TARRAGONA - HOUSE SPARROW (MALE) (Passer domesticus)

Cheeping flocks of House Sparrow once tumbled from untidy nests and wallowed in urban dust baths. Now the species is in decline and has been on the UK Red List since 2002.

Colonial nesters, the male House Sparrow is resplendent with grey head and black bib, while the female and young are more uniformly brown. Very much associated with the dwellings of man whether urban or rural, House Sparrows enjoy a mixed diet, and in the summer will readily forage for insects in hedgerows and meadows providing they do not have to fly too far from their nests.

House Sparrows are found year round throughout Britain & Ireland, except for on the highest peaks. The species has declined in the UK since the mid-1970s, with losses most notable in the south and east.

12-12-2014 MOROS MARJAL, SAGUNTO - SMALL WHITE BUTTERFLY (Pieris rapae)

12-12-2014 MOROS MARJAL, SAGUNTO - IBERIAN GREY SHRIKE (Lanius meridionalis)

11-12-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - EUROPEAN ROBIN (Erithacus rubecula)

10-12-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - SARDINIAN WARBLER (MALE) (Sylvia melanocephala)

3-12-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - HOUSE SPARROW (FEMALE) (Passer domesticus)

17-11-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - BLACK REDSTART (MALE) (Phoenicurus ochruros)

28-11-2014 PEGO MARSHES, ALICANTE - EUROPEAN STONECHAT (Saxicola rubicola)

27-11-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - GREAT TIT (Parus major)

17-11-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - BLACK REDSTART (FEMALE) (Phoenicurus ochruros)

8-10-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - SLANT FACED GRASSHOPPER (Euchorthippus chopardi)

8-10-2014 BARX, VALENCIA - EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH (MALE) (Carduelis carduelis)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_goldfinch

8-9-2014 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - IBERIAN STRAW GRASSHOPPER (Euchorthippus chopardi)

                            https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/746416-Euchorthippus-chopardi

31-8-2014 MONTE CORONA - GREAT GREEN BUSH CRICKET (Tettigonia viridissima)

27-4-20II MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - SIERRA NEVADA OCELLATED LIZARD (Timon nevadensis)

27-6-2012 ALBUFEIRA, VALENCIA - NORTHERN BANDED GROUNDLING (Brachythemis impartita)

28-4-2014 MARXUQUERA, VALENCIA - COMMON BLUE BUTTERFLY (Polyommatus icarus)

11-9-2014 PANAMA CITY, PANAMA - RED STRIPED LEAFWING (Siderone galanthis)

Siderone galanthis, the scarlet leafwing or red-striped leafwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to southern Brazil. The habitat consists deciduous and evergreen forests at altitudes up to 900 meters.

Adults have been recorded imbibing mineralised moisture from the ground.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Casearia sylvestris and Zuelania quidonia.

2-6-2006 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - JUMPING SPIDER (Philaeus chrysops)

13-6-2005 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - COMMON GERANIUM BRONZE BUTTERFLY (Cacyreus marshalli)