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CACTUS
ART
NURSERY
Cultivation and Mail Sale
of Cacti and Succulents.
Macro shots of cactus and animals in Cactus Art green
house
and from cactus friends from all over the world.
A special
thank to: Vera Gheno
(Italy) - Andrea Seidel (Germany)
-
Razvan Diaconescu (Romania) -
Steve Swirsky (South-East
Florida, USA) -
Andrea B. (Italy) - Zoltan Varga (Hungary)
- Yannick Gregorn (Slovenia) -Jürgen Menzel (Southern California
USA) -
Viviana (Argentina) - Geri Meier
(Switzerland)- Brigitte
Pelloux (France) - Peter Mügge (Germany)
- Héctor José Villarreal M.
A very special thank to: Jean-Yves Cretin (France)
entomologist at the University of Franche-Comté
for its precious help in identifying the animals of the photos and for
the useful information.
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Photo by
Peter Mügge (Germany)Butterfly named "Kleiner Fuchs"
means "little fox" = lat. "Aglais urticae"
on a Espostoa spec.
Photo by Jean-Yves Cretin
(France): Parodia warasii with a foraging
worker of "Bumble Bee" (Bombus terrestris)
Photo by Jean-Yves Cretin: Opuntia
sp. and Coelioxys
sp. Being asleep for the night, this female of Coelioxys (a
parasitic bee on leaf-cutter bee) is fixed on one Opuntia's
spines by its own mandibles !
Photo by Jean-Yves Cretin
(France): In this
corolla of Stapelia
grandiflora a female of "green-bottle fly" (Luciliasp.) comes
to ovideposit a new packet of eggs... note that a lot of eggs (the
white masses) were deposed before by another flies [See:
Sapromyophily]
Photo byViviana
(Buenos Aires - Argentina) Stapelia grandiflora with ants.
Are ants pollinators or pollen predator?
Photo
by Yannick
Gregorn Slovenia:
An adult of a
phytophagous bug on flowers of
Pediocactus despainii outdoor in the rock garden. (Latin
name: Pyrrhocoris apterus, in french "le soldat du
tilleul" in English a "firebug" )
This very common insect is mainly getting together at the base of
trees, in particular limes, walking on the ground top-to-tail when
coupled... It lives by sucking
sap
on some plants with his rostrum.
Photo
by Jürgen Menzel California USA A curious or hungry bird checking or eating a ripe
seed pod of Stenocereus thurberi (Organ Pipe Cactus).
Photo
by Jürgen Menzel California USA
For two years during summertime this species of spider (somebody
identified it for me, but I have forgotten its name again) visited my Peniocereus cuixmalense which is planted in the yard (in
southern California). In 2003 It permanently sat there becoming thick
and thicker. I even fed it. And one morning there was this cocoon
guarded by the spider slender again. It
guarded it for 30 days and disappeared short time before the youngsters
hedged. In 2004 this species lived on the plant again, but this time
without offsprings.
Photo
by Razvan Diaconescu (Romania): Spider mother whit sons (probably
of the Tetragnathidaefamily) on
Pachipodium lameirei
Photo
by Jürgen Menzel California USA
Western Black Widow (Latrodectus hesperus)
on Espostoa
Photo by Brigitte Pelloux
(France): A dragon-fly on an Alöe
infructescence
.
Photo by Brigitte Pelloux
(France): A dragon-fly on an olive tree
leaf.
Photo by Brigitte Pelloux
(France): A dragon-fly on a plant of Yucca.
Photo by Jean-Yves Cretin
(France):
Gymnocalycium baldianumwith a common mimicry Hover-Fly (Eupeodes corollae.
A butterfly(Apatura ilia a Lepidopteran of the NymphalidaeFamily ) &
a whiteEchinopsisflower.
