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Completed for Butterfly Conservation.  The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Common or Black Knapweed Centaura nigra, showing diverse leaf shape and typical spherical, purple flowering heads.

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

Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus & Queen butterfly Danaus gilippus life cycle on Mexican milkweed Asclepias curassavica.  Illustration includes pupa and caterpillar for both species.

Canadian Goldenrod Solidago canadensis sketchbook study page with comparisons to Solidago gigantea

Canadian Goldenrod Solidago canadensis habit drawing showing entire plant

Eucalyptus flowers, fruit and leaves on a branch

Eucalyptus tree showing typical form and growth habit

Branch with flowers and Baobab fruit

Ancient baobab tree showing its distinctive shape

Bird’s foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with seed pod and individual flower and calyx

Sloe Prunus spinosa sketchbook study including stuck in leaf and studies of fruit and blossom

Elder Sambucus nigra berries, flowering head and details

Dandelion Taxacum officinale with details of seed and root

Brimstone butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni with wings spread

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

Butterfly bouquest invented mix of flowers and butterfly cut to white

Brown hairstreak Thecla betulae with wings folded, female flying behind, adult in foreground resting on a leaf

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

Deaths head hawkmoth Acherontia atropos cut to white showing skull pattern on thorax

Forester moth Adscita statices with folded wings on a scabious flower, showin1g black colour and glittery irridescence of the wings

Red necked footman Atolmis rubricollis on cuckoo flower Cardamine with black wings folded and scarlet red collar on view

Silver washed fritillary butterfly Argynnis paphia cut to white one with folded wings one in flight, feeding on scabious flowers

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white