Typical flora and fauna known to be in the wild meadows, marshes, river beds and mountain sides that I or others with me have seen previously in Bulgaria are listed below. For details of the trip, see Bulgarian-Macro.

6 Spot Burnett Moth
9 Spot Moth (Amata phegea)
Acontia trabealis
Adonis Blue
Amber Tree Sap Holding Mosquito
Assassin Bug
Azure Damselfly
Balkan Copper
Balkan Green Lizard
Banded Bee
Bee Fly
Beetles
Beetles Mating
Bronze Bellied Glandular Bush Cricket (Bradyporus macrogaster)
Black Ants
Black Jumping Beetle
Black Longhorn Beetle (with b&w stripes on antenna)
Black Millipede
Black Veined White
Blue Longhorn Beetle
Blue Spot Hairstreak
Brimstone
Bumblebee
Burnett Moths
Buzzard
Carpenter Bee
Caterpillars
Chafers
Chestnut Coloured Chafer
Chestnut Heath
Chicory
Clouded Yellows
Common Blue Damselflies
Common Darter
Common Ringlets
Crab Apple
Crab Spider
Crab Spider With Butterfly
Crab Spider with prey
Crane Fly Larvae
Crickets
Cuckoo Wasp
Dagger Fly
Darter Dragonfly
Deathwatch Beetle
Debris-carrying Chrysopid larvae
Demoiselles
Eastern European Green Lizard (male & female)
Erhard’s wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii)
Eristalis pertinax or tenax
Essex Skipper
Female & Male Jumping Spiders (Philaeus chrysops)
Female Mammoth Wasp (Megascolia maculata)
Fiery Clearwing
Flesh Fly
Flower Beetles
Flying Ants
Forrester Moth
Fox Vixen Barking
Freyer’s Purple Emperor
Fritillary
Fritillary Mating
Frog Hopper
Gall Wasp
Golden Oriole
Grasshopper
Grayling
Great Banded Grayling
Green Veined White
Green Woodpecker
Grey Damselfly
Hairy Legged Mining Bee
Harvestman
Hawthorn
Heath Fritillary
Hoopoe
Horse Fly
Hover Fly
Hummingbird Hawk Moth
Katylid
Kingfisher in flight
Lacewing
Ladybirds
Little Hover Fly
Lizard Orchid
Long-Winged Conehead
Longhorn Beetle mating
Longhorn Beetles
Lycaena tityrus
Male Green Balkan Lizard
Male Sooty Copper (Lycaena tityrus)
Mallow Plant
Mantid Fly
Marbled White
Mating Shield bugs
Meadow Brown
Meadow Lizard
Meconema sp.
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Mitre Bug/Shield Bug
Mullein Moth Caterpillar
Odontotarsus robustus (shield bug)
Orb Spider
Owl Fly
Painted Lady
Pangonius pyritosus
Paper Wasp
Pink Crab Spider
Pink flower (Xeranthemum annuum)
Pipistrelle
Plume Moth
Praying Mantis
Purple Heron
Purple-Shot Copper (Lycaena alciphron)
Red And Black Oil Beetle
Red Backed Shrike eating Lizard
Red Damselfly
Rice Grain Ticks (Ixodus)
Robber Flies
Robber Flies Fighting
Robber Flies Mating
Robber Fly Defecating
Robber Fly With Food
Robber Fly With Prey
Robber Fly with Skipper
Roeseliana roeselii
Rose Chafer
Ruddy Darter
Scarce Swallowtail
Scorpion Fly
Second Generation Green-Veined White
Short Toed Eagle
Silver Washed Fritillary
Skipper
Sloe Bug
Small Blue
Small Copper
Small Green Lacewing
Small White
Speckled Bush Cricket
Spider With Prey
Spiders Webs and Eggs
Spoonwing
Spotted Burnett
Spotted Sulphur (moth)
Spurge Hawk Moth Caterpillar
Striped Shield Bug
Swallowtail
Tawny Mining Bee
Tettigonia
Thick Headed Fly
Thyme Broomrape (plant)
Trumpet Snail
Variable Blue Damselfly
Various Blues
Various Chafers
Various Moths
Various Shield Bugs
Various Slugs
Various Snails
Various Spiders
Vipers Bugloss
Wall Butterfly
Wall Lizard
Wasps
Wasp Nest Plus Wasps
Wasp Spider
Wasp With Red Abdomen
Weevils
Whip Snake
White Banded Digger Bee
White Crab Spider
White Stork
Wolf Spider
Wood Lark
Wood White
Wool Carder Bee
Yellow and Black Beetle
Yellow Butterfly
Yellow Crab Spider
Zygaena ephialtes moth

Please Contact Me, +44 (0) 7540 163136 or jmalls@me.com for an informal chat about the trip, to register your interest or to book it.

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