I was walking along the coastline, surrounded by a multitude of flowers ...
... there were these minuscule blue flowers ...
... of the Myosotis ramosissima plant ...
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... that covers large parchments of terrain near the coastal rocks ...
... and these other, slightly larger blue flowers ...
... of the Anagallis arvensis plant ... flowers in the sunny places were open ...
... and those in the shade were closed ...
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... from a certain angle, in the subdued light, these little blue flowers look very elegant.
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This red flower, shaped just like the blue one you saw on the previous shot ...
... was photographed on the same kind of plant ...
... the Anagallis arvensis ... and on the following picture ...
... you can see the wide - open red Anagallis arvensis flowers enjoying the sun ... and take a wider look at the mix of plants that grow on that coastal terrain.
The colorful Spilostethus pandurus bug was crawling around the Sonchus asper plant ...
.... this big furry caterpillar ...
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... of the Lasiocampa Trifolii moth was chewing some clover ...
... the Dysdera crocata, a woodlouse spider, was slowly walking across a parchment of terrain devoid of vegetation ... he stopped and crouched for a moment when I got close with the camera, so I was able to take this shot ... the following photograph ...
... was taken when the spider was ready to crawl again ... but this time he started to run really fast, so after this shot I had no chance to take another before he disappeared in the grass.
Some minutes later I saw a minuscule lump of earth ... that was moving ... in one short moment, the head of a larva appeared underneath ... I was able to take only one shot before it disappeared again ...
... here I cropped the image considerably to make the details more visible.
There was a hole in the ground nearby, and the small lizard appeared at the entrance ...
... took a look at the surroundings ...
... and when was reassured that no danger is present around ...
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... the lizard was ready to take a relaxed sunbath. This is the Podarcis sicula wall lizard.
Not far from there, on the similar terrain, I found this minuscule jumping spider. I don't know if this is a very small species or a juvenile spider. I never saw it before.
This colorful larva that looks a bit like some kind of extravagant sea cucumber is the caterpillar of the Melitaea cinxia butterfly.
The Coccinella septempunctata has found a shelter on the last year's dried out branch of the Scolymus hispanicus thistle ...
... and the female of some wolf spider (Lycosidae family, I don't know the exact species, quite a few very similar ones are present in the area) was photographed on the young, living Scolymus hispanicus plant while carrying the cocoon with eggs ...
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... on this wider, enlargeable photograph you can see that plant ... and its surroundings, the sunny atmosphere of the coastal meadow.
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This Pisaura mirabilis spider ...
... was resting camouflaged among the Plantago coronopus plants ...
... this is another plant that covers large parchments of terrain near the sea ...
... and often grows in small natural gardens in between coastal rocks ...
... here you can take a better, more up close look at the tiny flowers ...
... I noticed a minuscule grasshopper nymph ...
... in the interesting, slightly surreal macro landscape ...
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... created by these plants ...
... here the young grasshopper is cleaning his eye ...
... after this shot ...
... I photographed the lovely, edible and very aromatic Thymus pulegioides plant ... here the flowers are still closed ... while on the following shot ...
... some flowers are open ...
... here you can take a better, more up clo0se look at those small, fragrant flowers.
This is the equally small flower of the Cerastium fontanum plant. After taking this shot ...
... I was walking back to my car ... across the meadow with taller vegetation.
I photographed these Anthyllis vulneraria flowers along the way ...
... and that's all for today ... because soon I was driving home ... as always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are my work ... and as always in this NEWS FROM THE MEADOWS series, they were all taken today.