garden visitor

Small tortoiseshell Aglais urticae butterfly at rest with wings only slightly open.

Broken-belted bumble bee Bombus soroeensis, showing the bumble bee in flight, male bee

Broken-belted male bumblebee in flight.  Illustration for Swedish packaging company

Redwing Turdus iliacus perched on a branch, with a berry in its beak

Garden bumblebee cut to white showing markings and shaggy long hair

Blue tit cut to white

Robin cut to white

Robin Erithacus rubecula perched on an old wooden post

House sparrow Passer domesticus.  Male in profile, pen and ink with colour wash

Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata diagram with outstretched wing

House sparrow Passes domesticus Female pen and ink diagram with watercolour top wash

House sparrow Passer domesticus male perching on a branch with rosehips.

Coal Tit Periparus ater perched on a branch with several lichen species

Earwig Forficula auricularia quick sketch from above cut to white

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

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white

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

Speckled Wood butterfly Pararge aegeria cut to white

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

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

Painted lady Vanessa cardui butterfly with host plant Spear thistleCirsium spc and life cycle stages

Red admiral Vanessa atalanta cut to white

Peacock butterfly Aglais io cut to white

Peacock butterfly Aglais io lifecycle with host plant nettle Urtica dioica