Category: David

Close-up of an umbellifer, the last few petals of the flower just clinging on, the seeds beginning to develop.

Gatekeeper butterfly eating the nectar as it stood on thyme flowers – the flowers that were also attracting a small moth.

One of the corn marigold flowers in the wildflower area of Bantock Park, its petals dried out, crumpled and almost gone.

A revisit after a week to a ragwort growing in the Barley Field, previously host to a cinnabar moth caterpillar, and now there were at least twenty of the insects spread around the plant, eating for all they were worth.

Unripe green cones on one of the conifers in Bantock Park, with a tiny spider on the tip of one of the cones.

Day-flying moth (does also fly at night) with distinctive colouring, Pyrausta purpuralis, the common purple and gold moth, was feeding on the flowers of thyme in a local allotment, then settling to sun itself on the thyme leaves.