The grass, with umbellifers and reeds around it, was growing in the marshy area where the Stourbridge canal peters out.
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As the name indicates, the habits of this fly are less than salubrious. Here, however, it was just resting on a holly leaf.
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Eyed ladybird cleaning
A ladybird cleaning its legs and mouth parts. A couple of aphids also walk insouciantly by.
The ladybird is not the twelve spot species claimed in the closing titles of the video: corrected identification is as the title says.
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Yellow Rattle
Supposedly a common wild plant. This was on the edge of a small patch of them in Fens Pool LNR in Pensnett, the first ones I was ever aware of seeing.
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Bee on a bramble flower
Bee on a blackbery flower by the pond at Northycote Farm Country Park.
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Feverfew flowers
A mass of blooms on this clump of feverfew which was growing by the towpath of the Stourbridge canal.