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Garden hollyhock (and tiny beetle)

Garden hollyhock

Centre of one of the flowers of a garden hollyhock, and the rim of the flower with a small beetle clinging on.

Garden hollyhock (and tiny beetle)

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Pair of skipper butterflies on grass stem

Pair of skipper butterflies on grass stem

Pair of skipper butterflies on a grass stem. Perhaps preparing to mate – I didn’t hang around to see because I didn’t want to disturb them.

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Knapweed flowers, wildflower meadow, Bantock Park

Knapweed flower, wildflower meadow, Bantock Park

Some of the knapweeds when they were in flower recently in the wildflower meadow at Bantock Park.

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Ladybirds mating, artichoke stem

Ladybirds mating, artichoke stem

Pair of ladybirds, black with red spots, travelling down the stem of an artichoke as they mated.

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Potato flower, inverted

Potato flower, inverted

Flower, and flower bud, on a potato plant, the stems bending under the weight of the flowers, leaving them inverted.

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Stones, Sennen beach

Stones, Sennen beach

Large stones, rounded by wave action on Sennen beach on the extreme west of Cornwall.