Wolves Wild

Common Nettle-Tap (Anthophila fabriciana). It’s resting on a hazel leaf here, but there was a nettle patch only a couple of feet away.

Thistle, with one of the flowers shown fully open, and another yet to open.

The open flower had attracted a couple of tiny beetles. These were common pollen beetles (Brassicogethes aeneus), which show more clearly in the heavily-cropped version of the picture.

Yarrow flowers seem to be particularly attractive to common red soldier beetles this year. This one was busy grazing, walking across the flower while feeding.

A roadside sow thistle as some of the flowers had begun to turn to seed.

Snail, possibly a Pfeiffer’s amber-snail (Oxyloma elegans) slowly, slooowly crawling higher along one of the bulrush leaves in Compton Park pond.

Common knapweed (Centaurea nigra), yet another of the wildflowers which has been encouraged in teh wetland area around the Compton Park pond.

There’s a tiny insect of some sort visiting the flower too.