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

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Pair of mating soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) on Common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), Arne RSPB reserve, Dorset, England, UK, August. Did you know? In some areas this insect is called the “bloodsuck...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) pair mating on Wild carrot (Daucus carota carota) flower, Hvblege, Mn, Denmark, July 2009

Kim Taylor / Black-tipped Soldier Beetle {Rhagonycha fulva} taking off from Creeping Thistle {Cirsium arvense} Surrey, England.

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.