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Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris with Sleepy carpenter bee Chelostoma florisomne and Red Mason bee Osmia bicornis. Seed packet design for Roselyn Seeds

Red-tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius worker showing orange abdominal segments

Wasps and bees hibernating in cracks in an old wall, showing common UK bee and social wasp species in the mortar of a church wall

Garden bumblebee cut to white showing markings and shaggy long hair

Hay Festival Landscape completed for Hay Festival Mug design 2022

Orchid bee Euglossa cybelia with Cycnoches guttulatum orchid.  Illustration from “The Hidden Universe” by Alexandre Antonelli

Honey bee worker Apis mellifera illustration from A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve).  Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees.  Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.

Wild thyme Thymus praecox showing low growth habit and with details of the square stem and a single leaf

Meadow with wild flowers and insects and lark in the sky above, showing fertilized grassland without any other species then a gradual increase in flowers and other species until, in unimproved grassland, you have lots of wild flowers and associated insects, snails, and loveliness

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum in flower, flushed pink, with detail of the shiny red berries

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum plant with flower and red berries and elephant hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor visiting the flower with proboscis outstretched

Hedge bindweed Calystegia sepium with binding stems and showing species specific calyx and several large flowers along with the leaves

Foxglove Digitalis purpurea plant

Foxglove Digitalis purpurea individual flower with white tailed bumble bee inside

Devils bit scabious Succisa pratensis flower with leaves and roots

Common heather Calluna vulgaris with individual leaf, stem cross section, and flwoer detail and also showing the woody stem

Chive Allium schoenoprasum flower and edible leaves

Bee orchid Ophrys apifera entire plant with flowers

Landscape of fields speckled with buttercups and grazing herds of sheep and cows, in the foreground there are shrubs then wild flower patches which provide cover for grey partridge, gatekeeper burtterflies, seven spot burnet moth, adonis blue butterfly, green woodpecker, hoverfly, bees, tiger beetle, and oil beetle on bare soil. WIld flowers shown include meadow […]

Landscape of a large pond or lake with distant reeds and trees behind a fence; butterflies, birds, frogs and dragonflies are in the foreground along with bullrush and wild flowers