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Pink yarrow flowers, with and without a visit by a fly with green body and red eyes.

Funnel-shaped web, littered with vegetable detritus and with those parts of insects which had been trapped by the web then found inedible by the resident spider.

Coot adult with well-grown chicks swimming on the Avon at Stratford, and on their nest in the midst of a patch of waterlilies.

Large, mainly brown butterfly which glided around before settling down on a nettle and appeared to be laying eggs. Possibly one of the variant forms of white admiral butterfly lacking the white patch on the wings.

Tansy flowering. Look out for the small patch of green on the first image, a shield bug. One the second image the bug heads over the edge of the flowers. Then a red-eyed fly arrives instead.

The petals of this flower in New Place, Stratford, garden have been designed to attract humans, not insects after pollen. That doesn’t seem to have deterred this busy bee.