David

Quite a few umbellifers this year seem to be having flowers which are pickish or purplish rather than white.

A common meadow flower.

The flowers of this nettle were so abundant they seem to have hidden the rest of the plant.

Red rattle is a semi-parasitic plant. These were on the Saltwells LNR in Brierley Hill.

The small black dots on this flower are all tiny beetles.

Found late spring/early summer on dock leaves, which the young eat.

Their bright green colour is unmistakable.

This female is pregnant. Her body has swollen up so that the wings only cover the front section.