Included here, though not necessarily in this order, are pictures of an early bumble bee (Bombus pratorum), a yellow-legged mining bee (Andrena flavipes), a red-tailed bumble bee (Bombus lapidarius) and a tree bumbl;e (Bombus hypnorum).
The distinctive bright red flowers growing on a runner bean plant.
A hornet mimic hover fly (Volucella zonaria) feeding on buddleia flowers, giving a convincing impression of being the stinging insect as it did do.
Strange-looking things growing in a front garden. I thought they were fungi, but on closer inspection they are plants. Identified by iNaturalist as western wild ginger (Asarum caudatum) but I’m not convinced.
Sun flies, quite a common hoverfly. This one was busy eating on ragwort flowers.
The entire superstructures of the (tall, tall) plants are covered in defensive spikes. Those on the flowers are long, and end in a hook. They are designed to catch in fur or feathers once the seeds have ripened, to get the seeds away from the parent plant.
Once upon a time, teazles were used as combs to clean raw wool. Later, they were the inspiration behind the invention of Velcro (TM).