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Orchid bee Euglossa cybelia with Cycnoches guttulatum orchid.  Illustration from “The Hidden Universe” by Alexandre Antonelli

Honey bee worker Apis mellifera illustration from A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough

Yew Taxus baccata sprig with berries an needles

Yew Taxus baccata tree showing typical growth form

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

Heather Calluna vulgaris pen and ink line drawing with details of the shoot and individual flower

Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna sketchbook study, with a focus on the berries or haws

Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna pen and ink botanical illustration with details of the berries (or haws), blossom, and individual leaf

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

Stephanorrhina guttata spotted flower beetle

Euphoria fulgida Flower chafer

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

Yellow loosestrife Lysimachia vulgaris pencil drawing

Willow Salix sprig with catkin

Oil seed rape flower Brassica napus flowering spike in stippled pen and ink with watercolour top wash

Ivy Hedera helix sprig and black berries

Ivy leaf Hedera helix one lone leaf

Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna sprig of blossom and detail of shiny red berries

Heather Calluna vulgaris sprig

Foxglove Digitalis purpurea individual flower with white tailed bumble bee inside

Foxglove Digitalis purpurea plant

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