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Common duckweed Lemna minor showing plant growing and close up of flower

Holly Parachute fungus Marasmius hudsonii.  Illustration shows this tiny delicate fungus growing on dead and damp Holly leaves.

Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini.  These aquatic microscopic animals are almost bomb proof, and certainly are some of the toughest animals on planet Earth.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Pen and ink illustration of a the life in a drop of water under the microscope including Paramecium amoeba bell-animalcule and algae

Nematode worm showing transparent nature and internal organs and body parts. Cut to white

Hylobacter schematic illustration showing the bacteria with fringes

Euglena cut to white showing green photosynthetic colour and organelles

Diatom group showing diverse shapes and colours of these organisms

Daphnia about to be eaten by the bladder of the carnivorous bladderwort Utricularia species

Amoeba cut to white idealised schematic illustration in blue with organelles clearly depicted

Micro organism group amoeba euglena paramecium cut to white

Soft bog moss Sphagnum tenellum a clump of this tiny delicate yellow moss and details of a shoot tip, one leaf, one shoot, and a few shoots together

Disc floret diagram with seed attached and stamens and pistil on show

Pygny shrew Sorex minutus watercolour sketch

Pygmy marmoset Cebuella pygmaea

Common shrew Sorex araneus sketch from dead specimen cut to white

Comparison of the tiny seeds of plants such as poppy to the much larger enormous seeds of plants like the broad bean

Mixing tiny seeds in with some sand so you don’t lose the seeds and can see where you have sowed or broadcast them on the soil

Wren Troglodytes troglodytes perched on a branch cut to whtie

Wren Troglodytes troglodytes by its round nest in a woodland scene with ivy leaves and a suggestion of greenery behind

Ruby throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris in flight, feedin with tis long beak from a pink convolvulus like flower and showing its bright green featehrs and scarlet thoat patch

Blue tit Parus caeruleus, Coal tit, Long tailed tit, and great tits in a Scots pine tree with cowslip and snakeshead fritillary growing underneath

Amazon Hot rod Strawberry dart frog Oophaga pumilio with foliage

Amazon poison dart frog Dendrobates azureus