Sorry for the delay in continuing this update thread – lunch intervened.

This rather smaller dragonfly is very likely a common darter (Sympetrum striolatum; 🇩🇪 Großer Heidelibelle), seen all across Europe, from my old back garden in Wassenaar in NL to here in Campanet in Mallorca.

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On a rather larger scale & somewhat further away, a red kite (Milvus milvus; 🇩🇪 Rotmilan), soaring in the afternoon heat.

Not one for my arthropod list, but still a pretty sight.

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Back down to earth – a pair of large carpenter bees was patrolling the flowers.

They're genus Xylocopa & normally it's hard to definitively separate X. valga, the splay-footed carpenter bee from X. violacea, the violet one.

But as only the latter have been reported in Mallorca on iNaturalist, I'll plump for that.

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From the largest bees in Europe to the largest grasshoppers – this is an Egyptian bird grasshopper (Anacridium aegyptium; 🇩🇪 Ägyptische Wanderheuschrecke).

And unlike the previous one I saw a couple of days ago, this one had both of its hind legs, & could assuredly both hop & fly.

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And one of my favourites, no matter where I encounter them – this is a hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum; 🇩🇪 Taubenschwänzchen).

There were also a pair of them working the same flowers & plant, which is not something I've seen very often before.

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