Wolves Wild

Painted lady butterfly resting on the trackside ballast at Hereford railway station. The insect had just finished feeding on a nearby buddleia bush, and was perhaps warming itself in the sun.

Bee busy collecting pollen, working its way systematically through the flowers of a forget-me-not.

The Prince, mushroom, fruiting bodies pushing their way through the vegetation in a spot where they emerge regularly each year, usually in August. The first four pictures in this set were taken within perhaps a day of the fruiting bodies emerging; the other four pictures a week later.

Tiny and colourful day-flying Pyrausta purpuralis moth resting on a leaf.

Small water snails from the Compton Park pool, out of the water. One is resting in the burs of a bur reed, the other on a reed leaf.

Bee busily gathering pollen from a cornflower, the insect seeming to have only a minimal connection between its thorax and abdomen.