A green shield bug taking a brief rest on the leaf of a bay bush. Both the texture and the predominant colour of the upper surface of the buglooked like an excellent match to those of the leaf it was standing on.
Greens: haws, very unripe
Just beginning to develop, very unripe and still green, haws perhaps half the size they will eventually reach. This is how they were just about a month ago.
Bumbling on a bramble flower
There was plenty of nice weather when the bramble flowers were out this year, so they were visited by lots of bumble bees and other insects. A good crop of blackberries should be coming, weather permitting.
Ripening raspberries
Ripening raspberries, seen as they were early lst month, just beginning to turn from green to red.
Comma on thistle flowers, the Paddock
One of the second, summertime, generation of comma butterflies, feeding on the flowers of a thistle in the Paddock in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.
Wild carrot, Compton Park pond area
Wild carrot at various stages of flowering on different stems of the plant. Growing at the edge of the wetland area created round the Compton Park pond, and probably not one of the wildflowers which were sown when the area was created.