Category: David

Tortoiseshell butterfly resting on the ground, warming itself in the morning sun. As it did do, it was gently folding and unfolding its wings.

Teazles at different stages of flowering, a patch growing below Toposcope Hill in Baggeridge Country Park.

Common blue damselflies mating, clasping each other to form a wheel. Here they were resting on a bulrush leaf, probably just about to take off and fly. The female is green, the male blue.

The feathery parachutes for wind dispersal of the seeds form an almost complete sphere on these meadow salsify – also known as jack go to bed at noon, from the habit of the yellow flowers closing by the middle of the day.

Two skipper butterflies: one on a great willowherb flower, another with fluttering wings as it tries to perch on a grass leaf.

Webs forming enclpsed tent-like structures. Probably nursery webs as safe space for hundreds of tiny spider offspring. I didn’t have a close look, because the webs were in the middle of nettle patches.