The greater celandines I have managed to spot this year all seem to be growing in places which discourage a close approach. These pictures are of plants growing in a clump on a patch of sloping ground with brambles.
I don’t know what kind of insect this was. Whenever I’ve seen them in the past, it has been near farmland – specifically, close to fields where rape is flowering.
This time, there were a lot of them in the Smestow Valley LNR. This one stayed still long enough for me to grab its picture.
This single flower was growing some way down a steep slope on the Cotwall End LNR. If it was descended from a garden flower, it must have travelled some considerable distance.