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Lily pad with flower bud
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Episyrphus balteatus
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'Red' Oak leaves
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Sorbus berries
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Willow Emerald - Chalcolestes viridis - female.
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Vapourer moth - Orgyia antiqua - caterpillar feeding on Sallow
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta - on Flag Iris seedhead
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Digger Wasp species having a preen
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Willow Emeralds - Chalcolestes viridis - male and female
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Emerald Damselfly - Lestes sponsa - female
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Willow Emeralds - Chalcolestes viridis - egg-laying on a small Sallow shrub by a pond. Over 25 pairs were recorded ovipositing into this one shrub. View LARGE.
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Common Darter - Sympetrum striolatum - on Yellow Rattle
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Green Shieldbug - Palomena prasina - 5th instar
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Common Darters - Sympetrum striolatum - awaiting clearance for take-off
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Common Darter - Sympetrum striolatum
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Volucella inanis & Carder Bee species
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Common Darter obelisking
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Common Darter - Sympetrum striolatum
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Speckled Bush-crickets - Leptophyes punctatissima - male and female
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Black-tailed Skimmer - Orthetrum cancellatum - male
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Six-spot Burnet - Zygaena filipendulae
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Six-spot Burnet - Zygaena filipendulae - on Common Ragwort
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Common Darter - teneral (newly emerged)
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Blue-tailed Damselfly - Ischnura eligans - immature female form 'rufescens'
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Brown China-mark moth - Elophila nymphaeata
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Blue-tailed Damselfly - Ischnura eligans
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Early Bumblebee - Bombus pratorum on Red Campion
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Black-tailed Skimmer - Orthetrum cancellatum
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Winter Sun
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Persian Ironwood - Parrotia persica
