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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

Common blue Polymmatus icarus male cut to whtie

Common blue Polymmatus icarus male with wings outstretched and view with wings folded showing white and black spots and orange spots

Dark Green Fritillary butterfly Argynnis aglaja with wings folded so you can see the green and species specific dark green colours on the underside, cut to white

Elephant Hawk moth Deilephila elpenor with honeysuckle behind, feeding from the flowers in the evening

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

Euphoria fulgida Flower chafer

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

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