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South Devon National Landscape generic seascape with pollinators & flowers

Spotless ladybird Cycloneda sanguinea completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Bloody-nosed beetle Timarcha tenebricosa illustrated for South Devon National Landscapes

Notes & illustrations on the Japanese beetle Popillia japonica study sheet showing life stages and damage

Study sheet on Japanese beetle Popillia japonica showing adult, life cycle, and variety of damage caused by this pest

Text and illustrations Plum weevil Conotrachelus nenuphar and associated damage

Sheet on Plum weevil sheet Conotrachelus nenuphar and associated damage to fruit

Oviposition scars in typical crescent shape on apple from Plum weevil Conotrachelus nenuphar

Grub of Plum weevil Conotrachelus nenuphar within a cherry

Apple damaged by Plum weevil Conotrachelus nenuphar showing oviposition scars, bumps, maggot holes, damage and rot.

Adult Plum weevil Conotrachelus nenuphar showing bumps on elytra and distinctive brown band

Adult Japanese beetle Popillia japonica with distinctive abdominal white tufts

Japanese beetle Popillia japonica adult and life stages, with egg, grub or larva, and pupa

Rose chafer beetle, cut to white.  Common iridescent garden visitor

Black oil beetle Meloe proscarabaeus showing distinctive abdominal shape and antennae.

Stenocara Fog or Handstand beetle.  Beetle is shown in its typical 45 degree position, facing incoming wind and fog to collect water vapour on the bumps of its elytra. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

Large landscape showing an idealised view of Bantham estate in Devon.  It explains the process of succession and stabilization in a sand dunes landscape.  Over 28 species of plant and 17 animals appear in this natural history illustration.  These include adders to sand wasps, Comma butterflies to linnets, and marram grass to Sea carrots. Species […]

Oakland landscapw with details of mosses and lickesn and some insects that live in and on the oak trees including beetles and wasps; bird in the background include the nuthatch, pied flycatcher, warbler, and great tit

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]

Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea

Arable landscape showing how to encourage wildlife in a farming environment, including wild flower margins, skylark plots, leaving stubble, encouraging hedgerows. Species shown include marbled white butterfly, yellow hammer, green plover, lark, collared dove, knapweed, clover, ox eye daisy and blue butterflies behind a gate