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INSECTS

Beetle, Strangalia melanura

Six Spot Burnett moth

Hover Fly, Chrysotoxum cautum

Beetle, Oedemera nobilis

Hover Fly, Ferdinandia cuprea

Marbled White butterfly

Lace Border Moth

Scorpion Fly, male

Hover Fly, Chrysotoxum Festivum

Cinnabar Moth caterpillar

Cinnabar Moth

Scalloped Oak Moth

Beetle, Oedemera nobilis

Cardinal Beetle

Speckled Wood butterfly

Brimstone butterfly

Bumble Bee, Bombus pratorum

Small Emerald moth

Hover Fly, Volucella pellucens

Forest Bug, Pentatoma rufipes

Gatekeeper butterfly

SPIDERS

Crab spider lurks under petals and pounces on any unwary insect  landing  on  the  flower

Wolf spider hunts runs using speed to grab prey on the ground

Garden spider spins a familiar orb web so often seen.  This is a juvenile with a tiny fly.

Zebra spider, salticus scenicus hunts by leaping at it's prey and can  leap  up  vertical  surfaces

Veil-web spider spins webs around  umbell  flower  stems

Pholcus phalangeoides can only lives indoors in Britain, since it dies at low temperatures outdoors

Comb Footed Spider, Enoplognatha ovata
     lurks in and around umbrel flowers

Araneus diadematus, the garden spider is seen here mature form. Compare with the juvenile above

Teganaria domestica, the house spider, is the long legged one often  seen  trapped  in  baths.

Common Blue butterfly

Ichneumon Wasp

Small Copper butterfly

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Seven Spot Ladybird

Peacock Butterfly

Female Common Blue Butterfly

Bluebottle

Flesh Fly

Brown Argus Butterfly

Gatekeeper Butterfly variant markings

Six Spot Burnett Moth

Marbled White Buttterfly

Bee Fly

Common Yellow Dung Fly

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Crab Spider, Misumenia vatia, showing   
   colour variant with plant mimicking

Diaea dorsata Spider, another with plant
          colour mimicking abilities

Young Nursery Web Spider, Pisaura mirabilis