Salix

Sprig of this iconic spring plant with pussy willow catkins coming into flower. Catkins appear before leaves emerge.

Willow anthracnose Drepanopeziza sphaerioides on Weeping willow foliage Saliz babalonica

Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album from above and from side cut to white

Small Chocolate tip moth Clostera pigra holding its wings unconventionally held against a leaf background

Lunar Hornet esia bembeciformis Moth showing clear transparent hindwings and mimiryc patterns of wasp

Purple emperor butterfly Apatura ilia cut to white

Wind pollinators showing close up of individual flowers along with larger plant; dandelion, grass flower, and catkins. All use wind for pollination. Pen and ink with colour wash

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]

Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea

Landscape of fields speckled with buttercups and grazing herds of sheep and cows, in the foreground there are shrubs then wild flower patches which provide cover for grey partridge, gatekeeper burtterflies, seven spot burnet moth, adonis blue butterfly, green woodpecker, hoverfly, bees, tiger beetle, and oil beetle on bare soil. WIld flowers shown include meadow […]

Landscape showing Yellow flag iris, meadowsweet, arrow root growing next to a stream wending its way through a meadow, Black and white.