Lone poppy in a wheat field

Lone poppy in a wheat field

There was one single poppy visible in this wheat field. Across the road (next post, above)  it looked like poppies were the crop.

Grass flowering

Grass flowering

The grass, with umbellifers and reeds around it, was growing in the marshy area where the Stourbridge canal peters out.

Flesh fly

Flesh fly

As the name indicates, the habits of this fly are less than salubrious. Here, however, it was just resting on a holly leaf.

Eyed ladybird cleaning

A ladybird cleaning its legs and mouth parts. A couple of aphids also walk insouciantly by.

The ladybird is not the twelve spot species claimed in the closing titles of the video: corrected identification is as the title says.

Yellow Rattle

Yellow Rattle

Supposedly a common wild plant. This was on the edge of a small patch of them in Fens Pool LNR in Pensnett, the first ones I was ever aware of seeing.