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.

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.

Andy Sands / Sawfly (Tenthredo amoena) feeding on Red Soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) on flower of wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa), Oxfordshire, England, UK, July

Rod Williams / Three Common red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) on thistle, Sutcliffe Park Nature Reserve, Eltham, London, England, July.

Alex Hyde / Pair of mating Soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva), Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. July.

Roman Willi / Common red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) pair mating on flower head, Lucerne, Switzerland. July. Focus stacked.