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

Blackthorn or Sloe Prunus spinosa, one sprig in blossom and the other bearing fruit

Heterorrhina elegans flower chafer beetle dorsal view showing incredibly shiny bright green thorax and elytra

Blackthorn Prunus spinosa with a sprig showing spine, leaf and fruit and the other sprig showing blossom

Ruby throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris in flight, feedin with tis long beak from a pink convolvulus like flower and showing its bright green featehrs and scarlet thoat patch