summer

Wildflower meadow full of Corncockle, Cornflower, Corn marigold, Corn chamomile, Corncockle, honey bees, a Common blue butterfly, and a Red-tailed bumblebee.  Design for a seed packet producer.

Swift Apus apus parent visiting its nest in the eaves of a brick barn

House martin Delichon urbicum at nest in the eaves

House martin Delichon urbicum in flight showing tail and wing shape

Swift Apus apus in flight showing sickle shaped wings and dark stomach

Swift Apus apus and House martin Delichon urbicum comparison of the two birds in flight

Nesting tower for swifts, martins, & bats diagram showing the slots for bats, curved slits for swifts and nests for martins

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.

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.

Daisy Bellis perennis pen and ink illustration with details of the ray and disc florets

Barn swallow Hirundo rustica in flight, seen from below, with a small insect in its beak

Barn swallow Hirundo rustica viewed from above with small insect in its beak

Hemipteran bug diagram showing the general form of these insects, black and white, stippled, cut to white, watercolour wash, cut to white, cicada

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

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white

Speckled Wood butterfly Pararge aegeria cut to white

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white dead specimen so wings folded further back than in life

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae life cycle illustrated in pen and ink with colour top wash and host plant nettle

Scarlet tiger moth Callimorpha dominula on birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculata plant

Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus and meadow brown aniola jurtina butterfly in amongst grasses in a meadow, some in flight, with with upper wings on show and some showing under wings

Green Tiger Beetle Cicindela campestris cut to white dorsal view showing green wu=ing cases with white markings and metallic pink legs and ferocious jaws

Meadow with wild flowers and insects and lark in the sky above, showing fertilized grassland without any other species then a gradual increase in flowers and other species until, in unimproved grassland, you have lots of wild flowers and associated insects, snails, and loveliness

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum in flower, flushed pink, with detail of the shiny red berries

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum plant with flower and red berries and elephant hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor visiting the flower with proboscis outstretched