Category: David

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.

One of the stems of a purple loosestrife growing by the side of the canal, seen at the end of last month when these flowers were just beginning to open.

Comma butterfly, showing the white comma mark on its underwing, perching head down feeding on a thistle flower.

Flowers on one of the mallows growing among the grasses of the Barley Field last month.

Bee which has gathered a light dusting of pollen as it went round visiting flowers on one of the ragwort plants in the Barley Field recently.