bright colours

White Admiral Limenitis camilla butterflies with view of upper and lower wing, feeding on blackberry flowers

Small skipper Thymelicus sylvestris natural history illustration on grasses

Brimstone butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni with wings spread

Coral cross section pen and ink monochrome illustration including a scene of a coral reef with a detailed close up of the internal organs of a typical coral polyp

Deaths head hawkmoth Acherontia atropos cut to white showing skull pattern on thorax

Butterfly bouquest invented mix of flowers and butterfly cut to white

Brown hairstreak Thecla betulae with wings folded, female flying behind, adult in foreground resting on a leaf

Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album from above and from side cut to white

Forester moth Adscita statices with folded wings on a scabious flower, showin1g black colour and glittery irridescence of the wings

Heath fritillary butterfly Melitaea athalia on cowwheat with speedwell, one in flight and one showing folded underwings

Red necked footman Atolmis rubricollis on cuckoo flower Cardamine with black wings folded and scarlet red collar on view

Silver washed fritillary butterfly Argynnis paphia cut to white one with folded wings one in flight, feeding on scabious flowers

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white

Emperor dragonfly Anax imperator male dorsal view cut to white

Six spot burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae showing food plants Birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculata and all the life stages of the life cycle including the yellow spotted with black caterpillar and amazing paper cocoons then dramatic moth with black and red wings, along with the papery cocoon wihcih is attached to tall stems of grasses

Silver Y Moth Autographa gamma adult at an angle cut to white

Small Chocolate tip moth Clostera pigra holding its wings unconventionally held against a leaf background

Small Copper Lycanae phlaeas Butterfly cut to white

Small Heath Butterfly Coenonympha pamphilus showing underwings

Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary butterfly Boloria selene

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae life cycle illustrated in pen and ink with colour top wash and host plant nettle

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white dead specimen so wings folded further back than in life

Speckled Wood butterfly Pararge aegeria cut to white

Swallowtail butterfly Papilio machaon cut to whtie