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Giant Hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum showing red spotted stems and variable leaf shape

Peony flower Paeonia lactiflora, shown just coming into bloom.

Giant hogweed Heracleum sphondylium showing white corymbs of flowers, different shaped leaves, and cross section of the hollow stem

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula in amongst vegetation emerging from its larval shell which it will leave behind as its exuvia, adult colours not yet fully developed, cut to white

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula larvae under water on stony substrate with caudal lamellae or tracheal gills clearly visible; water plants including crowfoot behind

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula life cycle showing all the life stages against a blue wash backround with aquatic plants and pebbles and mud, adult, mating pait, egg laying, egg, larva, exuvia, emergent adult all shown, water lily on water surface

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula pair egg laying with male holding female with his anal claspers around her neck as she lays eggs just below the surface of the water

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula pair mating in distinctive cartwheel shape with background of water and aquatic plants

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula adult against a blue background

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula adult male cut to white

Emperor dragonfly Anax imperator male dorsal view cut to white

Atlas moth Attacus atlas with wings outstretched showing glorious brown and orange marks on wings and feathered antennae

Goliath beetle Goliathus goliatus monochrome pen and ink illustration from above, dorsal view, cut to whtie

Goliath beetle Goliathus goliatus dorsal view, cut to whtie

Hercules beetle Dynastes hercules in side view, facing right, showing enormous horn

Long stalked yellow sedge Carex lepidocarpa with flower and fruit and individual details of two stigma, ligule, fruit, and glume

Kentish fillbasket apple Malus close up of the apples with several leaves behind

Great fen sedge Cladium mariscum plant, fruit, flowers, rhizome and roots, and details of the spikelet, stem, fruit and detail of the folded leaf

Greater tussock sedge Carex paniculata individual platn and large tussock of the plant along with ligule, stem cross section and glume detail. In flower

Giant Fescue Festuca gigantea with spikelet, lemma and amplexicaul ligule

Giant hogweed Heracleum sphondylium with stem cross section and lots of leaves

Black poplar Populus nigra leaf flower and catkins

Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare study with enlarged detail of one flower showing the golden centre and slightly damaged white petals, a whole plant is drawn to the left of this with one leaf in detailed pencil tone and another in full colour, along with a section of the stem

Common carp Cyprinus carpio