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Butterfly, species unknown, resting on one of the plants growing from the limestone rock of one of the calanques of Cassis.

A smokebush  (cotinus) in the small municipal park in the resort of Cassis.

A cicada, creator of one of the characteristic sound effects of the Mediterranean.

Just for once, not hard to spot in vegetation. Instead, it was sitting on a fence.

A profusion of tree tobacco flowers in the small civic park in Cassis, a Mediterranean resort not far from Marseille.

A palm moth – image matching ID by the iNaturalist website – resting on vegetation.

Rock samphire growing from the limestone rock right by the shore of one of the calanques at Cassis. The calanques are a series of miniature fjords or rias heading east from Marseille, where rising sea levels have flooded the steep valleys cut by fast-flowing winter streams.