sea-side

Thrift clearwing moth Pyropteron muscaeforme on Thrift illustrated for South Devon National landscape

Blue mussels Mytilus edulis with byssal threads on wooden piling.  Illustration includes barnacles and limpets, and some bladder wrack seaweed.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

Sea Buck-thorn Hippophae rhamnoides shrub pen and ink with colour wash

Sea Buckthorn shrub Hippophae rhamnoides.  Pen and ink illustration shows elongate leaves, low shrubby growth habit, and berries.

European Rockpool diagram showing lots of shoreline crustaceans, bivalves, anenomes, and gastropods, sea weeds, and background