common

Common British Garden invertebrates including violet ground beetle, silver y moth, earth worm, worm, flesh fly, honey bee, ladybird, and small tortoiseshell butterfly with written annotations on each

Southern Hawker Aeshna cyanea male cut to white

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

Banded demoiselle Calopteryx splendens in side view male cut to white

Speckled Wood butterfly Pararge aegeria cut to white

Scarlet tiger moth Callimorpha dominula on birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculata plant

Silver Y Moth Autographa gamma lifecycle showing caterpillar, silk cocoon, adult and egg arranged around the round leaved mint food plant

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

Orange Tip butterfly Anthocharis cardamines with outstretched wings cut to white

Peacock butterfly Aglais io lifecycle with host plant nettle Urtica dioica

Peacock butterfly Aglais io cut to white

Green Tiger Beetle Cicindela campestris cut to white dorsal view showing green wu=ing cases with white markings and metallic pink legs and ferocious jaws

Two spot Black ladybird Adalia 2-punctata dorsal view, sketch, cut to whtie

Violet Ground Beetle Carabus violaceus detailed dorsal view cut to white

Violet Ground Beetle Carabus violaceus detailed dorsal view cut to white whith metallic purple wing case margins exaggerated

Flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis with maggot and pupa

Blue bottle fly Calliphora vomitoria adult cut to whtie

Drosophila fruit flies male and female along side each other showing sexual dimorphism, cut to white

Elephant Hawk moth Deilephila elpenor with honeysuckle behind, feeding from the flowers in the evening

Lesser diving beetle Acilius sulcatus pointing downwards with water weed behind, hind legs outstretched to show how they resemble oars

Screech beetle Hygrobia tarda dorsal view, floating in the water with a sprig on water weed behind

Ground beetle Carabidae type cut to whtie

Red ant Mymrica Rubra swift ink sketch with red wash and stippling

White tailed bumble bee Bombus lucorum life cycle showing adult feeding, underground nest, feeding on thistle, feeding on foxglove, egg, emerging from egg,