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A large locust resting on lace with meal worms on a black background © Tracy Collyer/shotbywomen

Yellow Butterfly in a kilner jar against brick wall background © Tracy Collyer/shotbywomen

Adult monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus butterfly, order Lepidoptera, with its wings folded on a pink Zinnia flower in Woburn Community Garden, Massachusetts © Mirena Chavdarova/shotbywomen

Bee caught in flight flying near a sunflower © Tracy Collyer/shotbywomen

Common blue butterfly sitting on small yellow flowers © Tracy Collyer/shotbywomen

Golden sunflower in bloom hosting a feeding bee © Tracy Collyer/shotbywomen

Colourful dragonfly resting on a twig © Tracy Collyer/shotbywomen

Swallowtail Butterfly feeding on a pink wild flower with green grass background © Tracy Collyer/shotbywomen

A Gatekeeper Butterfly feeds on a ragwort flower © Sue Dudley/shotbywomen

In the autumn heather flowers provide nectar to wild pollinators like this bee. © Saskia Sichermann/shotbywomen

A butterfly perched on newly blooming daisies. May 2021 © Nilgun Yavuz/shotbywomen

A butterfly perched on newly blooming daisies. May 2021 © Nilgun Yavuz/shotbywomen

A dark green fritillary (lat.: Speyeria aglaja, Syn.: Argynnis aglaja) butterfly - a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae - atop a creeping thistle (lat.: cirsium arvense) - a perennial spec... © Kiki Streitberger/shotbywomen

Beekeeper working with a beehive in Mendocino, California. © Jana Ašenbrennerová/shotbywomen

Small beekeeping farm in Mendocino, California. © Jana Ašenbrennerová/shotbywomen

Small beekeeping farm in Mendocino, California. © Jana Ašenbrennerová/shotbywomen

Small beekeeping farm in Mendocino, California. © Jana Ašenbrennerová/shotbywomen

Green flower beetle on a yellow buttercup flower © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

A beetle in the Cocora Valley Reserve, Department of Quindio, Colombia. © Karen Toro/shotbywomen

A writing spider in her web © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

An insect in the middle of dry flowers. © Karen Toro/shotbywomen

Vegetation and a little insect of the tropical cloud forest of the Intag valley, Imbabura province, Ecuador. © Karen Toro/shotbywomen

Wildlife in Iguazu. © Karen Toro/shotbywomen

Garden spider in a web © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Leaf cutter bee filling holes in a bug hotel with leaves to house her eggs © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Leaf cutter bee filling holes in a bug hotel with leaves to house her eggs © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Head on shot of male stag beetle © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Male stag beetle on a tree trunk © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Lesser stag beetle on wood plank © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Stag beetle in a garden © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Honeybee pollinating rosemary © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Male stag beetle showing pincers © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Honey bee on rosemary plant © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

7 spot ladybird on rosemary plant © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

7 spot ladybird on rosemary plant © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

7 spot ladybird on rosemary plant © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Large bumblebee on centre of knapweed plant © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Hoverfly on lavender plant © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Nursery web spider on a leaf © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Early bumblebee on a leaf © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Furry bumble bee on knapweed plant © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Garden spider ina web © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Shield bug on a leaf © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

16 spot ladybird © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

Large female writing spider and her much smaller male mate © Sian Tyrrell/shotbywomen

A Blue Dasher Dragonfly resting on a twig in the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria. © Mirena Chavdarova/shotbywomen