Common garden spider, which had built its web where it was possible to get views both from above and below.
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Teazle flowers visited by bee
Teazles, still flowering, flowers still attracting insects. The busy bee is possibly a common carder bee.
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Common spangle galls, oak leaf
Looking like circles of rust on the underside of an oak leaf, these are galls, protective covering for the larvae of a tiny wasp, the common gall wasp.
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Summer peacocks feeding, resting
A peacock butterfly was very busy feeding on the water mint flowers in Compton Park pond. As I strolled down to the canal, another peacock was resting on a leaf, spreading its wings to warm them in the sun. Later, as I retraced my steps, the first insect was still where it had been, still busy feeding.
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Shaggy parasol on ivy-covered ground
Growing on ivy-covered ground by one of the footpaths through Hawthorn Wood, a shaggy parasol.
This one must have emerged only recently; the cap hadn’t started to flatten yet. These large mushrooms appear in the same spot around this time most years.
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Ragged comma on garden table
Comma butterfly resting on a plastic garden table. Its colours looked faded, and its wings ragged.