Contents

Foreword

Bees and Wasps

1 Buff-tailed Bumblebee

2 Eastern Bumblebee

3 Brown-belted Bumblebee

4 Western Honeybee

5 Blueberry Digger

6 Violet Carpenter Bee

7 Eastern Carpenter Bee

8 Gooden’s Nomad Bee

9 Sandpit Mining Bee

10 Oblong Woolcarder Bee

11 Unequal Cellophane Bee

12 Gold-green Sweat Bee

13 Striped Sweat Bee

14 Blue Orchard Mason Bee

15 European Hornet

Hoverflies and Flower Flies

16 Hornet Mimic Hoverfly

17 Marmalade Hoverfly

18 Oblique Stripetail

19 Eastern Calligrapher

20 Large Bee Fly

Butterflies and Moths

21 Common Buckeye

22 Great Spangled Fritillary

23 Painted Lady

24 Monarch

25 Malachite

26 Mourning Cloak

27 Comma

28 Peacock

29 Cloudless Sulphur

30 Spicebush Swallowtail

31 Old World Swallowtail

32 Adonis Blue

33 Hummingbird Hawk-moth

34 White-lined Sphinx

35 Snowberry Clearwing

36 Jersey Tiger Moth

Beetles

37 Seven-spotted Ladybug

38 Swollen-thighed Beetle

39 Spotted Longhorn Beetle

40 Rose Chafer

Acknowledgements

Picture Credits

Images

Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on thistle.