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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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A the tree frog (Hyla meridionalis) walking on Mammillaria sanchez-mejorade and Sulcorebutia rauschii HS 121/1			Photo by Vera Gheno (Italy): a very interested visitor, her cat (the nose)

*Sulcorebutia gerosenilis* whit a "Common Swallowtail" butterfly (Papilio machaon a Lepidopteran of the Papilionoidea family )	Top view of the Swallowtail over *S. gerosenilis* flower.	Photo by Jean-Yves Cretin (France)*: Copiapoa tenuissima, with a solitary bee (Halictus* sp.) more known as Digger Bee	Astrophytum myristigma cv. Onzuka and a beautiful male of «Jumping Spider» (Phylaeus chrysops a southern species of the Salticidae family that live in sunny stony habitats)

Photo by Steve Swirsky (South-East Florida, USA) A green "Crab Spider" (A spider of the Thomisidae family of the arachnid order)	A green “Hunter Spider” of the species Micrommata (probably ligurinum) on a young Cereus forbesii forma *spiralis*		Photo by Peter Mügge (Germany): Hooverfly on Echinopsis Hyb. (MUG 29 "Vanilla Sky" = Orange Glory x Tupac) MUG is Peter's international shortcut.

Photo by Andrea Seidel (Germany): **Echinocereus reichenbachii var. baileyi and a flock of "Hover Flies" or “flower flies”** Scientific name Syrphus balteatus one of the most common species of the Syrphidae family (Diptera order ).	Photo by Razvan Diaconescu: *Faucaria tigrina* and another "Hoverfly" from Romania (Syrphus balteatus)	Photo by Jean-Yves Cretin *: Pleiospilos bolusii* with one more "Hover-Fly" from France. (Syrphus balteatus)	Photo by Andrea B: ... and again a *Syrphus balteatus* from Italy. Its common name is "marmalade hoverfly" on a flowers of *Crassula*
	See: Myophily (Pollination by flies)

A "Ground Bug" of the genus *Hoploprocta* or Syromasters (Coreidae family, Hemiptera order) on an Escobaria sneedii var. leei		A "Seed Bug" of the genus *Lygaeus equestris* (Lygaeidae family, Hemiptera order) on a flower of Turbinicarpus polaski

An "Egyptian Locust" the bigger European species of locust (grasshopper) distributed in the entire Mediterranean area (Latin name *Anacridium aegyptium) on a Rebutia heliosa* (left) and walking on an *Echinocereus* sp.(right)		Photo by Geri Meier (Switzerland): Another grasshopper walking on a plant of Turbinicarpus jauernigii.	Photo by Yannick Gregorn (Slovenia): "a first-instars young Grasshopper" on an Opuntia flower

A Myrmecophagous “leaf Beetle” on a stems of Peniocereus greggii, it is an insect which larvae live within the ant-hill and devour the ants and not the leaves, it is a coleopteran of the Chrysomelidae family, it’s scientific name is *Clytra quadripunctata.* Photo by Razvan Diaconescu (Romania):	Photo by Andrea B. (Italy): A "Grint Hornet" (Vespa crabro) on a flower of Schlumbergera	Photo by Andrea B. (Italy): A «Jumping Spider» of the Salticidae family on Crassula	*Harris ia jusbertii* and the green lizard