SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Beetle, (Rhagonycha fulva), feeding on oxeye daisy flower, Scotland, UK, July.

Heather Angel / Saxon wasp (Dolichovespula saxonica) and Common red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) feeding on Broad leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine). Surrey, England, UK. August.

Nick Upton / Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) peering at Soldier beetle (Cantharis rustica) with warning colouration, whilst foraging for insects in meadow. Domesticated. Near Bath, England, UK. May.

Joao Burini / Frontal portrait of a Soldier beetle (Cantharidae) South-east atlantic forest. Piedade, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Sandra Bartocha / Soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) Mon, Denmark, September.

Nick Upton / Female Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) wrapping a Common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) with silk after injecting it with venom. Chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

Rod Williams / Common Red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) on Creeping thistle, Sutcliffe Park Nature Reserve, Eltham, London, UK July

Lorraine Bennery / Common soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) mating, Haute-Savoie, France, June.

Lorraine Bennery / Common soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) mating pairs, La Brenne Regional Natural Park, France, June.

Lorraine Bennery / Common soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) mating, Haute-Savoie, France, June.

Alan Williams / Beetle (Cantharis nigricans) resting on leaf at edge of meadow, Cheshire, UK, May.

Rod Williams / Soldier Beetle (Cantharis rustica) Sutcliffe Park Nature Reserve, London., Eltham, London, UK. May