Female Common Blue.
Male Common Blue.
The magnificent chalk grassland flowers on Babylon Down
A rather friendly Common Green Grasshopper, Omocestrus virdulus, with a missing back leg.
Flowering Wild Marjoram, Origanum vulgare. This actually the same species as the herb oregano, but it has a different scent when growing in a cooler climate. The bees were very strongly attracted to it.
A Buff-tailed Bumble Bee, Bombus terrestris, collecting nectar from the Marjoram.
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