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Male Emperor dragonfly cut to white showing distinctive green and turquoise colouring

Tawny owl Strix aluco sat on a branch, showing mottled plumage and large eyes.

Spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata perched on a gravestone, eating a beetle.  Completed for Cusop Churchyard nature panel.

Spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta with leg bone of giraffe

Short-eared owl Asio flammeus in heather

Round-leaved Sundew Drosera rotundifolia with detail.  Carnivorous plant growing in upland and boggy habitats.  

Thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus, an extinct marsupial mammal. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Tabby Cat Felis catus looking at the viewer and sitting on grass. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Great White shark Carcharodon carcharias showing denticles and skin, and the Sharklet anti-bacterial material that is has inspired. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Large landscape showing an idealised view of Bantham estate in Devon.  It explains the process of succession and stabilization in a sand dunes landscape.  Over 28 species of plant and 17 animals appear in this natural history illustration.  These include adders to sand wasps, Comma butterflies to linnets, and marram grass to Sea carrots. Species […]

Coastal Hay Meadow in Devon (Bentham).  Illustration shows idealised grassland scene with insects, birds, and wild flowers one would hope to see in a well managed coastal hay meadow.

Clouded leopard Neofelis nubulosa at rest on a tree branch pencil sketch

Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata diagram with outstretched wing

Praying mantis Mantidae with green eyes and body, in typical prdatory watching and preying position, yellow belly, cut to white

Pond skater Gerris lacustris

Common British Garden invertebrates including violet ground beetle, silver y moth, earth worm, worm, flesh fly, honey bee, ladybird, and small tortoiseshell butterfly with written annotations on each

Centipede Chilopod dorsal view cut to white

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula adult male cut to white

Keeled skimmer Orthetrum coerulescens male resting on vegetation cut to white

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula in amongst vegetation emerging from its larval shell which it will leave behind as its exuvia, adult colours not yet fully developed, cut to white

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula larvae under water on stony substrate with caudal lamellae or tracheal gills clearly visible; water plants including crowfoot behind

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula life cycle showing all the life stages against a blue wash backround with aquatic plants and pebbles and mud, adult, mating pait, egg laying, egg, larva, exuvia, emergent adult all shown, water lily on water surface

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula pair egg laying with male holding female with his anal claspers around her neck as she lays eggs just below the surface of the water

Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula pair mating in distinctive cartwheel shape with background of water and aquatic plants