insect

Common wasp Vespa vulgaris feeding on a ripe pear; sketch in colour

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

White tailed bumble bee Bombus lucorum nestled in the florets of a thislte head

Harlequin beetle Acrocinus longimanus cut to white showing distinctive orange and cohre pattern, elongated fore legs, and long antennae

Aristobia approximator beetle

Spruce Bark beetle Ips typographus inset illustration against a background showing maternal and larval galleries in bark

Tropical beetle ventral view showing large hind legs and metallic red and green colouration

Buprestid metallic wood boring beetle cut to whtie showing its extraordinary rainbow colouration

White tailed bumble bee Bombus lucorum showing fluffy hairs and stripes, wings outstretched, cut to white

Wildlife home diagram for a bumblebee nest with an inverted flower pop and a length of hose pipe as the entryway

Wildlife home diagram for a bumblebee nest showing a wooden box full of hay or straw, in a hole under a stone with a pipe for access

Yellow meadow ant Lasius flavus carrying an egg across the dirt

Honey bee Apis mellifera visiting the pear blossom in spring

Bilberry bumblebee Bombus monticola in amongst heath plants and heather with distinctive orange furry abdomen

Honey bee Apis mellifera detailed illustration of the worker

Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum twig and conker with fruit peeping out from the spiky seed cover

Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum flowering spike or candle

Dandelion Taraxacum officinale with root, flower, bud, and dandelion clock along with individual flower and individual seed detail

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

Reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus perched in amongst a thicket of reeds peering down