Wolves Wild

A yellow water lily on the pond outside Boscobel House.

Mushrooms can often be found on wood chip mulch, as here with these hare’s foot inkcaps.

The distinctive berries of the cuckoo pint.

A member of the daisy family, and yet another introduced species which has escaped to become a weed.

The “pineapple” is tiny flowers bunched closely together.

This clump of poppies were growing on the edge of a cornfield.

These spiders’ webs seemed to be tent-shaped as they held on to drops of the rain which had fallen overnight on the day the pictures were taken.

One of the many native species of longhorn beetles: so called because of their impressive antennae.

This particular species is common, and feeds mainly on nectar, as here.

Almost certainly the descendant of a cultivated foxglove, but this white specimen was nevertheless growing wild.

Various insects feeding on thistle flowers. Notice the huge eyes of the hoverfly.

In contrast, these black beetles are tiny.

A bumblebee bends its body to extract the maximum amount of nectar.