Michael Hutchinson / Slow motion clip of a Common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) feeding from a Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) flower, Bristol, England, UK, September.

Sergio Hanquet / Tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii) plants charred by forest fire, amongst rocks. Ifonche, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2012.

Nick Garbutt / Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo) nectaring on Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) flower. North Tyrol, Austria. June. Focus stacked image.

Heather Angel / Marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) feeding on pollen on Viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) anther. Dolomites, Italy. June.

David Woodfall / Corn Marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum) and Bugloss (Echium vulgare) in strips on machair. North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, July.

David Woodfall / Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), grazing amongst Purple vipers bugloss, (Echium plantagineum) Cornwall, England, UK, July.

Nick Upton / Lanzarote bugloss (Echium lanzarottense / lancerottense), an endemic species to the island, and Canary crucifer (Erucastrum canariense) a Canaries endemic, flowering near Haria, Lanzarote, Canary Isla...

Nick Upton / White tajinaste (Echium decaisnei purpuriense / Echium famarae), a subspecies endemic to Lanzarote, flowering on a coastal hillside, Famara, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, February.

Nick Upton / White tajinaste (Echium decaisnei purpuriense / Echium famarae), a subspecies endemic to Lanzarote, flowering on a coastal hillside, Famara, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, February.

Ernie Janes / Vipers bugloss (Echium vulgare) in flower with Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) Scotland, UK. July.

David Woodfall / Strips of purple Vipers bugloss( Echium plantagineum) and Corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum) with Cornish coast in background background . Bosregan Meadows,St Just Cornwall,England ,UK

Kim Taylor / Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare). Apennines, Italy, May.