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Thrift clearwing moth Pyropteron muscaeforme on Thrift illustrated for South Devon National landscape

From the series of Animals of Montserrat colouring-in illustrations commissioned by UKOTCF

Honeysuckle berries Lonicera pericylmenum with leaves and showing these bright, shiny berries.

Floral border with imagined Convolvulus flowers and Hawkmoth

Yew Taxus baccata sprig and detail of lone berry

Grey willow Salix cinerea with make and female catkins along with a spray of leaves, one showing its underside

Whiskered bat Myotis mystacinus hat portrait showing long fur and sharp teeth

Lesser Horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros in flihgt revealing domething of its complicated facial and nose structure

Snipe flying across a ride clearing in woodland with forestry behind showing how to manage and harvest trees and related prodcuts such as charcoal, coppicing and timber; a distant pool and alder carr gives way to clear fell forestry on distant hills and patchy clearings; in the foreground wild flowers and butterflies are shown growing […]

Three views of fenland with increasignly complex networks of inter dependent species, culminating in a rich landscape with wild flowers, a hobby hunting dragonfly, and heacy with insect life

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 […]

Landscape of fields speckled with buttercups and grazing herds of sheep and cows, in the foreground there are shrubs then wild flower patches which provide cover for grey partridge, gatekeeper burtterflies, seven spot burnet moth, adonis blue butterfly, green woodpecker, hoverfly, bees, tiger beetle, and oil beetle on bare soil. WIld flowers shown include meadow […]

Landscape showing an ancient oak woodland with oak trees which were last pollarded years ago, the under storey is carpeted with bluebells, the trees are hung with lichen, and there are moths in the foreground settled on a patch of wild spring flowers

Vertebrate embryos comparing growth forms in chart form