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Bumblebee with an already well-filled pollen basket scrambles round, even turning upside down, collecting from a St John’s wort flower.

A tiny day-flying moth rests on the leaf next to some bryony flowers.

Close-up of a bryony stem, showing a tendril used to clasp onto other plants for support. There is cuckoo-spit where the stem divides.

Flower of a bryony growing in the hedge by the canal at Castlecroft.

Fluffy duckling on the pool of a small park in the southern French coastal resort of Cassis.

Young moorhen chick swimming out into the middle of the canal at Compton, watched over by one of the parents.