Andy Sands / Brimstone butterfly (Goneopteryx rhamni) male on Wild basil flower (Clinopodium vulgare) Hertfordshire, England, UK, August

Andy Sands / Chalkhill blue butterfly (Polyommatus coridon) female on flower of Wild Basil, Hertfordshire, England, UK August

Colin Varndell / Wild basil flowers (Clinopodium vulgare), Dorset, UK, July.

Andy Sands / Wild Basil Fower (Clinopodium vulgare), Oxfordshire, England, UK, May - Focus Stacked Image

Andy Sands / Common green grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus) sitting on flower of Wild basil, Oxfordshire, England, UK, July

Paul Harcourt Davies / Basil Thyme (Acinos arvensis) in flower, with Forget me nots (Myotis sp) and other alpin flowers, Mount Vettore, Sibillini, Umbria, Italy, June

Nick Upton / Wild basil (Clinopodium vulgare) flowering in a traditional hay meadow, near Bled, Julian Alps, Slovenia, July

Nick Upton / Wild basil (Clinopodium vulgare) flowering in chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK. July.

Nick Upton / Wild basil (Clinopodium vulgare) flowering in chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK. July.

Nick Upton / Wild basil (Clinopodium vulgare). Bath and Northeast Somerset, England, UK, July.

Nick Upton / Wild basil (Clinopodium vulgare). Bath and Northeast Somerset, England, UK, July.