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Painted lady by the track

Painted lady by the track

Painted lady butterfly resting on the trackside ballast at Hereford railway station. The insect had just finished feeding on a nearby buddleia bush, and was perhaps warming itself in the sun.

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Forget-me-not with bee collecting

Forget-me-not with bee collecting

Bee busy collecting pollen, working its way systematically through the flowers of a forget-me-not.

Forget-me-not with bee collecting

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Breaking through: the Prince

Breaking through: the Prince

The Prince, mushroom, fruiting bodies pushing their way through the vegetation in a spot where they emerge regularly each year, usually in August. The first four pictures in this set were taken within perhaps a day of the fruiting bodies emerging; the other four pictures a week later.

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Pyrausta purpuralis moth resting on leaf

Pyrausta purpuralis moth resting

Tiny and colourful day-flying Pyrausta purpuralis moth resting on a leaf.

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Water snails on bur reed bur and leaf

Water snail on bur reed bur

Small water snails from the Compton Park pool, out of the water. One is resting in the burs of a bur reed, the other on a reed leaf.

Water snail on bur reed leaf

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Strange looking bee on cornflower

Strange looking bee on cornflower

Bee busily gathering pollen from a cornflower, the insect seeming to have only a minimal connection between its thorax and abdomen.