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Peacock butterfly and a lesser tortoiseshell on the same spike of flowers, each busily feeding with no regard to the other nearby.

Purple loosestrife, flowering at the height of summer. These were all in the conservation area at Baggeridge Country Park.

Damsons, seen just before they were ready for picking – some have since been picked and eaten. Fruit from the same tree at an earlier stage in the ripening process here.

Small group of brown birch boletes growing on a lawn recently. Some showing the lower surface of the caps, covered in pores rather than caps where the spores emerge.

Juniper shield bugs in the midst of their prolonged process of mating, on a garden wall. No cypress trees in sight where they were, but some in gardens on the next street.

Close-up view of a passion flower, in perfect condition on the morning after a rainy night.