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Burdock flowers beginning to open, with a tiny snail hanging on. A red-eyed fly also seems to be after a share of whatever is on offer.

Pair of humbug snails mating on a plastic garden table on the morning after a rainy night.

Water crowfoot flowering in the River Penk on the outskirts of Coven.

The plant is shown in flower in the Millais painting of the death of Ophelia.

Beautiful demoiselle damselfly which seemed to prefer perching on hawthorn leaves when it took pauses from patrolling its territory over a stretch of the canal at Wightwick.

Scarletina boletes are a fairly common mushroom which, like all boletes, has pores rather than gills on the undersides of the caps.

When they are cut, their flesh very quickly turns dark blue.

CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as lurid boletes

The leaves at the end of two of the twigs of a cherry tree on someone’s front lawn were already turning into the colours of autumn early this month.