Nick Upton / Male Thick-legged flower beetle (Oedemera nobilis), with a Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) pollinium attached to its head, nectaring on Common hogweed flowers (Heracleum sphondylium), Wiltsh...

Nigel Cattlin / Peach leaf curl (Taprina deformans) fungal disease distortion of leaves on a young Peach tree, Berkshire, September.

MYN / Javier Aznar / Blister beetle (Hycleus scabratus) profile, Oman. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Oil Beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus). Powerstock Common, Dorset, England, UK, April.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Blister beetle {Meloidae} taking off from flower, Texas.

Nigel Cattlin / Pear leaf blister mite (Eriophyes pyri) damage to Pear (Pyrus sp) leaves. Berkshire, England, UK. May.

Nigel Cattlin / Pear leaf blister mite (Eriophyes pyri) damage to Pear (Pyrus sp) leaves and young fruit. Berkshire, England, UK. May.

Nigel Cattlin / Pear leaf blister mite (Eriophyes pyri) damage to young Pear (Pyrus sp) fruit. Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Pear leaf blister mite (Eriophyes pyri) damage to Pear (Pyrus sp) leaves. Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Corky brown damage to Pear (Pyrus communis) fruit possibly caused by early Eriophyid (Eriophyidae) blister mite infestation. Berkshire, England, UK. September.

Nick Upton / Black oil beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus) walking on a coast path, seeking a site to dig a burrow for its eggs, north Cornwall, UK, April.

Nick Upton / Black oil beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus) starting to excavate a nest burrow in a footpath on a chalk grassland hillside, the Ridgeway, Wiltshire, UK, April.