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Father, husband, & nature lover, confined to the sofa by M.E. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 No ALT text, no 🔃, no ❤️. https://www.meaction.net/learn/what-is-me/ "Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous." Mon Mothma

A square photo of two matingn butterflies. They are joined at their tails and facing in opposite directions. The uppermost butterfly in the image is white, with a tinge of green. The structure of the wing is brought out by the light, shadows emphasising the ridges on the forewing, and the tip of the rearwing that is visible. Hanging vertically beneath it is another butterfly with much greener underwings (both insects have their wings folded shut). It is facing down with it's antennae pointing directly to the ground that is out of frame. The uppermost insect is supporting them both by clinging to a leaf. The butterflies are surrounded by leaves and stems of the bush they are alighted on.

A close up photo of a very large green and black dragonfly. It's a portrait photo and the head is at the top right corner, with the tail going out of frame on the bottom left. It is perched on a white net, with a very fine mesh, which forms a nice background to show off the lace like intricacies of the veins in the wings.

A portrait photo of a light blue, spherical, spiky flower that has long thin pointy leaves radiating frm its base. It sits atop oa light blue stem that has a similar ruff of leaves about halfway up. The background is light and dark soft greens. On the left hand side of the sphere is a black and yellow wasp, viewed from the side and facing upwards. Its front legs are bright yellow, as are stripes on its abdomen. The rest of the body, including the antennae and eyes, are black.

A portrait photo of a butterfly on a a purple flower head. The stem of the flower is vertical, a third in from the right hand edge of the frame. It's light green. The flower head is dark green and black, sort of pineapple shaped, with purple tufts out the top. The butterfly is sitting with its wings open, and is viewed from above as it looks to the bottom left of the frame. It has long antennae with black and white stripes on them, black eyes on a white face. The body is covered in blue hairs. The forewings are mainly brown, but with an iridescent blue sheen, and orangy brown splodges at the perimeter. The hind wing is similar brown with iridescence, and then at the trailing edge, there are orangey brown and white panels with black dots in them. The very edge has a fine black line around it and then a white feathery fringe.

A light blue globe like flower on a light blue and green stem. The base of the flower has four small leaves sticking out radially, like a broken ruff. The flower head has lots of little blue stamen stikcing out from it. In between these, in the top left corner there are two long brown segmented antennae sticking up, and at the bottom of these is a bee, facing the camera. Only its left eye is fully visible, and the edge of its thorax.

A portrait photo of a caterpillar on a plant stem. The main stem runs vertically up the frame, a third of the way in from the right hand edge. It is dark green, against a lighter green, out of focus, background. It has three leaves coming off the left hand side of the stem, at an upward angle. The caterpillars head is at the base of the lower of these leaves, and then its body rises up to the top left of the frame along the upper leave. The caterpillar is quite striking, being white, with black vertical splodges, along its segments, and with yellow horizontal lines along the top and the bottom of its flanks.

A stem twirls up from the bottom right of the frame to the top left. Near its end sits a butterfly, side on and facing to the right. The body is fluffy and blue, with black and white stripes on the antennae. The wings are folded up, showing their brown underside, with dark spots with white borders, dotted on them, and then orangy brown little oblongs at the trailing end of the wing, bordered by a white band. The butterfly has curled its abdomen under the stem and is laying an egg.

A photo of a bright yellow flower, viewed from above. It has just over a dozen long yellow petals emerging from a dark brown centre. Making a 90 degree angle up the right side, and across the top, of the centre are two slender true bugs. They're joined at the rear of their abdomens, as they're mating. The one across the top is looking at the camera and trying to get the photographer to back off by waving its middle leg at the lens. The photographer took the hint and retired to a respectful distance to continue spying on the love bugs.

A portrait photo which is a close up of a small black fly on a little sepal (?). The fly is viewed from the slide and is black and brown. It's rear leg has a very broad 'thigh', hence its name.

A portrait photo of a spire of purple flowers moving from the bottom left of the frame to the top right. The flowers are like little ornate trumpets, with loose long petals, clustered around a dark green stem. On the flowers, at the top centre of the frame is a bumblebee covered in gingery brown hairs. The background is out of focus mottled light and dark green.

A fluffy black, orange , and white, bumblebee viewed side on whilst it pauses on a cone flower. The flower is a warm yellow and takes up the fore ground of the photo. The soft focus background is another cone flower, of a paler yellow.

A brown and orange butterfly, faces slightly away from the camera, towards an out of focus daisy in the background. The daisy has a rich yellow centre with a multitude of white petals around it. It's surrounded by dark background. In the bottom left of the foreground the buttefly is resting on the heart of another daisy, which is one of a cluster of three. The upperwing is just showing as its wings are half open. The wing is mainly brown, but on the fore wing there is a black and orange chequer block, and on the hind wing, on the trailing edge, there is an orange section with a wavy edge, that is bordered with black, and then white. It's very pretty!

A portrait photo of a brown butterfly on a blue flower. The stem of the flower emerges frm the bottom left of the frame, and the flower head is at an angle. The butterfly is side on, its forewings are orange on the underside with a black spot with a white dot in it.

A black and white night vision video of a hedgehog. It is in a transparent box which has access tunnels at either end so it can come and go as it pleases. Also in the box are two dishes, one of good and one of water. The hedgehog stomps about upending both dishes before making to leave.

A portrait photo. The picture is divided into three horizontal sections. The bottom fifth is back (plastic frm the camera case). The top third is dark and out of focus background. In between is a textured plastic case with a green and brown camouflage pattern on it. In the right had side of this is a small white, brown and black spider, that is peering to the bottom left corner of the frame. She has two shiny black eyes on the front of her face, just above her pedipalps which look like two extra legs. She's mainly white with some black splodges on her head and abdomen, and then light brown hairs giving her quite a delicate look.

A purple thistle like flower head that looks like a black scaled ball with purple tentacles bursting out the top. It's on a long thin stem with occaisional long thin oval leaves. There are two more unopened flower heads, so just the black scaled balls. On top of the flowering head there is a bumblebee, part facing the camera. It has large black eyes, and its antennae are sticking out upright making a v shape. It has an orange band just beind its head, and another at the front of its abdomen. The tip of its abdomen is white. All of its body is hairy.

A small butterfly sitting on the yellow heart of a daisy. The daisy is at the bottom of the frame and fills the width of it. Above the daisy there are other daisies out of focus in the background, and above that there are patches of blue sky through out of focus tree branches. The butterfly is side on, facing to the right. It has long antennae with small clubs on the end. The underside of its fore wings are copper coloured with black dots. The underside of the hind wing is a light brown.

A close up of a caterpillar eating stem of a thistle. The picture is portrait and the stem the caterpillar is on raises up from the bottom right corner at an angle, leaving the left hand side of the frame about halfway up. The bottom of the picture shows the edge of the tent the caterpillar builds by wrapping a leaf and sticking it in place with silk. The top half of the caterpillar is emerging from this tent. Its body is dark in colour with yellow stripe along the underbelly. It has white christmas tree like spikes emerging from its body, along with long white hairs that are quite sparsley spaced. It has three pairs of legs at the head end that look like calipers as they grasp the stem. The front pair are in the air as the caterpillar has reared up to nibble on the end of an adjacent stem. It has large eyes, but the whole head, including the eyes, has sparse long white hair emerging from it.

A black and white video of a large clear plastic box on some grass. Viewed from side on it shows wooden tunnels on either side which allow access for hedgehogs to the food and water inside. The food and water are in separate saucers. A hedgehog approaches from the right had side and enters the box. It eats some food and then trundles across the inside of the box, treading on both saucers and upending them.

A head on view of a brown butterfly that has its wings open. The underside of the wings is visible which shows an orangey patch with a black splodge near the wingtip which has two white dots in it. The butterfly is perched on a mid shad green leaf with serrated edges. In the background there are varying shades of sunlit green leaves, and in the front left fore ground there is an out of focus blue flower.

A short video clip in black and white. It shows an upturned transparent plastic box, with a tunnel at either end. Inside the box is a hedgehog eating food, whilst another one wandered around outside working out how to get in.

A portrait photo that shows a head on view of a small bug that is sitting on a grass seed head. The grass seed head looks like a crop, wheat perhaps. The bug is facing towards the camera. It is mottled brown with a relatively wide head, that has prominent small balck eyes on either side. The shape of the head, and the eye spacing, makes it look quite cute.

A light orange haired bee with its face shoved into a purple cup shaped flower. The been has varying degrees of light orange hairs all over, apart from a dark stripe across its abdomen. Its legs are grasping the edges of the petals, which shows off the black hairs on its feets and forelegs, which is how it gets its name as the Hairy Footed Flower Bee. They look like false eyelashes stuck to its legs.

A side view of a yellow spider and an unfortunate bee, on the upper edge of a bright yellow flower. The flower faces to the right, and has its legs drawn up alongside its large bulbous abdomen. In its jaws it has grasped the neck of a small dark bee. The bees head is stopped down under the spiders jaws, as if it is bowing down. The bee has yellow on the tibia of its hind legs, and white lines of hairs across its abdomen. There's a lot of yellow! The background to the spider and bee, and the flower, is out of focus green with dots of white and yellow from the other flowers in the meadow.

A small black wasp standing on the bright yellow flower centre of a daisy. The photo has the flower centre dominating the bottom left of the frame, with the white petals reaching out to the bottom right and the foreground. The background is out of focus green. The wasp is standing on tiptoes, with the sunlight glinting off its eye and its thorax. At it's rear the sheath for its ovipositor is sticking straight up, and the needle thin ovipositor itself is pointing down into the flower. The wasps legs are red, but there are no other visible markings.

A photo of a long green insect which has very dainty and long antennae. It has large ovalish wings which are intricately patterned with veins, giving them a lace like appearance. The abdomen is long and green, the thorax is quarish and green, and the head is small, angular, and, you guessed it, green. It has a large spherical looking shiny eye. Its eating bright yellow pollen from the yellow centre of a daisy, with large white petals in the foreground. The background is dark and out of focus.

A portrait photo where the background is out of focus greens, whites, and yellows of meadow patch flowers. The foreground is a bright yellow flower, like a small sun, viewed from slightly above so that it is an oval. It is supported by a relatively thick light green stem up the centre of the frame. The petals nearest the camera are hanging downwards under the weight of the spide that is grasping them. The spide is hanging upside down, supported by its front legs, and its rear most (which are out of sight). The middle two legs on each side are stretched wide, ready to snatch any invetebrate it can. Its body is centered above the plant stem and its small black eyes are staring into the camera. All the spiders body and legs are yellow, matching the flower.

A tiny bee in a portrait photo, in which it is resting on a very bright yellow flower. There are other bright yellow flowers around it. The bee is mainly dark colour, with a metallic grey/green finish on it's head and thorax. Its eyes are black and sort of tear drop shaped, hugging the outside of its face. It has long antennae, and its face is covered in bright yellow pollen.

3 photos in a collage. All are of an insect perched on a flower head comprising of a multitude of tiny white flowers. The insect has antennae that look like feathers sticking out of its forehead, broader for the 50% furthest from the head. It has two large separate eyes, with a long white face. The thorax has a dusting of orangy hairs, and the abdomen is broad, and black with thin white stripes that don't meet in the middle.

Three different images of a the same small bee on a daisy like flower that has a yellow heart and white petals emmenating from it. The bee has light yellow hairs on its face, sparse orange hairs on its thorax, and white stripes from tiny hairs across its abdomen.

A portrait photo that has a vertical green stem tightlyt wrapped with leaves running up the left side of the frame. The background to the photo is light and mid-green foilage that is all out of focus. Sat on the stem at an angle, but facing the camera and showing some of its underside, is a green insect. It has a small angular head with broad shoulders that form the leading edge of the shield from which it gets its name. It has light green legs and its underside, which makes up most of what can be seen of it, is a light green. From the middle of its head it has a green straw, with a dark line down the middle, extending as far as its middle legs. It is tucked up along its underside ready to use.

Two small black flies on the bright yellow centre of a daisy, surrounded by white petals, and a soft mid-shade green background. The flies are viewed from their right, side on, and are "doing it like they do on the Discovery Channel" with one clasping the other from behind.

A side view of a yellow and black insect on a light brown branch that arcs from the top left of the frame to the bottom right. On the left hand side it is a thicker diameter than where the wasp sits, as the material has been removed by the wasps to build their paper nests. The wasp faces right to left, and is bright yellow, and black, with light hairs on its body.

A side view of a small black bee clasping onto the stamen of a blue flower with her jaws. The background and foreground are blue, with the stamen emerging from the bottom right corner of the frame. It's covered in small white grains of pollen. The bee is using her legs to brush pollen onto the hairs under her abdomen.

A tree like structure of stems with small white flowers on top. Nestled in one of the branches is a white spider, with dimples on it abdomen. In its front legs it's holding a dark fly upside down. The fly has a metallic green sheen to its thorax.

A yellow and blac fly viewed from its right hand side, and slightly above, as it approaches a small daisy like flower. The flower has a yellow circular heart, surrounded by petals which are white and light pink, like lots of fine fingers emmenating from the yellow at its center.

Two mating damselflies viewed from slightly off from head on. They are resting on a dark green egg with a serrated edge. The damselfly at the front is blue and black, with its tail attached to the head of the second. The second is slightly out of focus and mainly hidden by the leaf, through which their shadow can be seen. Its tail is looped underneath to attach to the first damselfly. The second insect is more yellow green and black.

A mainly black bumblebee is viewed from the side as it hangs upside down from a small white flower. The tip of its abdomen has gingery red hairs on it. The frame is filled with thin red stalks in a jumble, dotted with small white flowers, with dark and light green in a soft out of focus in the background.

A landscape view of a spider resting on a blackened trunk top. The top half of the image is out of focus bright green, which contrasts nicely with the blackened wood. The spide is looking left to right, half head on, with her legs splayed. The image is focussed on her 5 visible eyes, which are black hemispheres with a glint of the overcast clouds. She is mainly brown, wbut with light stripes across her legs, and along her flanks. Her abdomen is pushed up by the hidden egg sack underneath.

A portrait view of a bight yellow and black wasp on a pale brown twig of dead wood. It is chewing at the wood, making skritchy noises, to take away the pieces to use in making the communal nest. The first wasp gets chased off by another, which starts going through the same motions. At the end the camera pans up and to the left, to show the top of the dead wood trunk, on which a dark brown wolf spider sits in the sun, with a large white egg sack under abdomen.

A portrait photo of a small dragonfly, take side on, and slightly behind. It's perched on a pale brown bamboo cane, with an out of focus light and dark green background. The dragonfly has an orange and yellow abdomen, and red and white stripes on its thorax. Each of it's four wings has a dark rectangle on the leading edge, near the tip. Its abdomen is only slightly longer than the head and thorax combined, making it a short bodied dragonfly.

A front on portrait photo of a damselfly peering over the edge of a red, furry, leaf. The damselfly's mouthparts are hidden but its face, and two large eyes are visible. Each eye has a brown stripe across the top third, and a yellow one across the bottom third. The middle section is somewhere between the two in colour with a dark line along the two borders. It's head has many fine hairs surrounding its two short antennae.

A long bodied bronze mettalic beetle, viewed from above. It's rear legs have very bulbous thighs, and it has very long black antennae. It is perched on a light green plant with spiky leaves, and its rear feet are each on a small yellow flower.

A patterned orange, black and white butterfly facing from the top right of the frame to the bottom left corner. Its wings are extended, and it's perched on a spike of purple flowers. The background is out of focus green. It has long antennae with white crowned black clubs at the tip.

An faded orange, black and white butterfly sits with its wings open on a purple cluster of flowers. The background is out of focus dark green, broken by a much brighter coloured example of the same butterfly species.

A portrait photo where the bottom two thirds are take up with the yellow expanse or an iris petal, with the veins in the petal causing some shadowing. The petal edge moves across the frame at about forty five degrees, and the the spider is perched on the edge, facing the camera. His front legs are outstretched as if getting ready to give a big hug. The legs are black with brown bands on the lower parts of the limbs. The rear legs are light brown. The abdomen has a white ring around it, and in the middle a black circle bisected with a light brown stripe down the centre.

A portrait photo of some yellow flowers (buttercups) intermingled with red campion flowers (deep pink with five petals) on the end of long spindly stems. The background is out of focus midgreen colours made up of grasses and hawthorn hedging.

A landscape photo of long bodied dark brown insect, standing on the surface of some water above a very light brown pebble. The insect has a very long snout, with hemispherical eyes positioned so it can see both above and below itself.

A short video showing a Grey Heron (a tall grey and white egret) wrestling with a frog it has just taken out of the pond in front of it. The pond is bordered by lush green vegetation, with a light blue house in the background. At the end of the clip the heron flies off to the top right of the frame.

A 10s movie clip of a small bee resting in a light brown brick with holes in it. Her head and front legs are sticking out the hole whilst she cleans her antennae, and her very very long tongue. She has some light brown/orange hairs on her abdomen, but is otherwise black in colour.

A close up photo of two red mason bees mating, whilst perched on a blue muscari flower head. The photo is portrait in orientation, with the muscari flowers on the lef side of the frame. The flower head is made up of what look like littlel blue barrels, hanging downwards, with the petals slightly paler at the liip. The bees are facing up, and are viewed side on. The male is clasping the back of the female, and has an orange/red fluffy body with darker stripes. He has pale orange hairs on his face, and antennae which are noticeably longer that the femails. Although the female is larger in size all that can really be seen of her is her black head and eyes.

A blue banner with white block capital letters across it, N, H, and S. This stands for National Health Service, the public healthcare provider in the UK.

A view of a female zebra jumpingn spider, looking down on her slightly from the front. She's standing on a double glazed window, which is reflecting grey, but there's also two reflections of her, underneath her, one from each pane of glass. Her head is canted downwards as if she's admiring how she looks. Her legs and body are finely patterned with little, black, brown, and white hairs, giving her a mottled sort of appearance. Almost like she's been coloured in with fine pencil strokes. Her two main eyes are large for her head, black with white highlights from the camera flash.

A head on shot of a small black and white spider, hanging upside down from a white textured plaster ceiling. It has two large black eyes staring at the camera, with a smaller black eye on either side. Its face is mainly white with fine black and light brown details, and a brush of fine black hairs pointing straight downwards. Its body is mainly obscured by its pedipalps, small limbs used for manipulating prey. It's legs are mottled white and black.

A black and white night camera clip of a pond, taken from the shore. The foreground has pebbles and clumps of frogspawn, to the right of the frame a white and ginger (grey in the night vision) cat tentatively licks and bites at a fresh clump of frog spawn. It sometimes pauses and gently paws at the spawn.

The frame is static, and shot from water level at the edge of a pond. In the foreground are some pebbles and frog spawn. The water is full of fidgeting frogs, most in could pairs, as they jostle for position to spawn.

A close up photo of a fresh clump of frog spawn, mostly submerged above a bed of egg sized pebbles that are a mixture of light browns and greens. The protective jelly is only a slightly larger than the center of the egg, I think as it's freshly laid. The background is of the surface of the pond, reflecting out of focus vegetation and a light brown trellis.