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Stephanorrhina guttata spotted flower beetle

American cabbage looper Trichoplusia ni caterpillar showing pale green colour, cut to white and busy looping along

Atlas moth Attacus atlas with wings outstretched showing glorious brown and orange marks on wings and feathered antennae

Common blue Polymmatus icarus male in field, with background landscape and ladies smock, knapweed, scabious, and buttercups in meadowland

Euphoria fulgida Flower chafer

European Stag beetle Lucanus cervus showing glowing mahogony back and massive adapted mandibles

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

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

White clover Trifolium repens showing rooting nodes and pale chevrons on the leaves

Tormentil Potentilla erecta plant showing both shapes of leaves

Red clover Trifolium pratensis plant

Ragged robin Lychnis flos cuculi with flowers, buds and leaves

Oxlip Primula elatior

Nigella and Scabious bouquet with Nigella seed pods

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum plant with flower and red berries and elephant hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor visiting the flower with proboscis outstretched

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum in flower, flushed pink, with detail of the shiny red berries

Dog Rose Rosa canina with rose hip and two flowers as well as leaflets and thorned stem

Dog Rose Rosa canina quick sketch of flower and bud

Elder Sambuccus nigra flowering head and berries, somewhat depleted along with leaves

Crab Apple Malus sylvestris with small fruits, woody stem, leaves, and blossoms

Crack willow Salix fragilis tree shape without leaves and individual sprig of leaves and flowering catkin

Creeping Thistle Cirsium arvense showing basal rosette and several thistle flowers

Cross leaved heather Erica tetralix with close up of flower, distinctive stame, and individual leaf with red gland at the base

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