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

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum showing two blooms with twisting stems.

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

Egyptian Rousette Bat Rousettus aegyptiacus, an animal used by humans for biomimicry. Illustration from the cover of “30 animals that made us smarter” by Partick Aryee.  This illustration cannot be re-used in any other book titles.

Egyptian Rousette Bat Rousettus aegyptiacus, an animal used by humans for biomimicry. Illustration from the cover of “30 animals that made us smarter” by Partick Aryee.  This illustration cannot be re-used in any other book titles.

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

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve).  Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees.  Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.

Sweet orange Citrus sinensis in bloom with single flower in detail.

Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica plant including roots underground

Linden or lime tree Tilia x europaea pen and ink line drawing with detail

Pollinators bee ant hoverfly on Japanese knotweed Fallopia japonica

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

Blackberry Rubus fruticosus line drawing with focus on the blossom and berries

Sketchbook study of the blackberry, focusing on the ripe and un ripe berries

White tailed bumble bee Bombus lucorum nestled in the florets of a thislte head

Driver ant Dorylinae in balck and white, side view

Red ant Mymrica Rubra swift ink sketch with red wash and stippling

Common wasp Vespa vulgaris feeding on a ripe pear; sketch in colour

White tailed bumble bee Bombus lucorum life cycle showing adult feeding, underground nest, feeding on thistle, feeding on foxglove, egg, emerging from egg,

Honey bee Apis mellifera visiting the pear blossom in spring

Bilberry bumblebee Bombus monticola in amongst heath plants and heather with distinctive orange furry abdomen

Honey bee Apis mellifera detailed illustration of the worker

White tailed bumble bee Bombus lucorum showing fluffy hairs and stripes, wings outstretched, cut to white

Wildlife home diagram for a bumblebee nest with an inverted flower pop and a length of hose pipe as the entryway