Alan Williams / Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris) feeding on Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) at the edge of a meadow, Cheshire, UK, August

MYN / Dirk Funhoff / Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) flower, Lorsch, Hessen, Germany. June. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Rod Williams / Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park July

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Two Six-spot burnet moths (Zygaena filipendulae) resting on a Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) flower, Powerstock Common Dorset Wildlife Trust Reserve, Dorset, England, UK, June.

Linda Pitkin / Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in flower, Surrey, England. June.

Linda Pitkin / Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in flower, Surrey, England, June.

Guy Edwardes / Five-spot burnet (Zygaena trifolii) on Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca), Powerstock Common DWT reserve, Dorset, UK, June.

Ross Hoddinott / Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) flower, Dunsdon nature reserve, Devon, UK. July .

Phil Savoie / Forest cuckoo bumblebee (Bombus sylvestris), visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca), in a wildflower meadow. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK.

Phil Savoie / Long-horned bee (Eucera longicornis) female visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. A rare/scarce species due to wildflower meadow habitat loss. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Phil Savoie / Common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Phil Savoie / Common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Phil Savoie / Long-horned bee (Eucera longicornis) female visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. A rare/scarce species due to wildflower meadow habitat loss. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Phil Savoie / Long-horned bee (Eucera longicornis) female visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. A rare/scarce species due to wildflower meadow habitat loss. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Phil Savoie / Long-horned bee (Eucera longicornis) female visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. A rare/scarce species due to wildflower meadow habitat loss. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Phil Savoie / Long-horned bee (Eucera longicornis) female visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. A rare/scarce species due to wildflower meadow habitat loss. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Phil Savoie / Long-horned bee (Eucera longicornis) visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. A rare/scarce species due to wildflower meadow habitat loss. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July,

Phil Savoie / Long-horned bee (Eucera longicornis) visiting Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in a wildflower meadow. A rare/scarce species due to wildflower meadow habitat loss. Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Ross Hoddinott / Marbled White butterfly (Melanargia galathea) resting on tufted vetch (Vicia cracca), Dunsdon Nature Reserve, Devon, UK. July 2019.

Will Watson / Common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) surrounded by Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca), on a brownfield site, Worcester, England, July.

Will Watson / Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) growing on a brownfield site against a backdrop of grasses, Worcester, England, July.

Nigel Cattlin / Tufted or bird vetch (Vicia cracca) in blue purple flower among chalk downland vegetation, Berkshire, England, UK, July

Nick Upton / Small skipper butterfly (Thymelicus sylvestris) nectaring on Tufted vetch flowers (Vicia cracca) in a woodland ride, Wiltshire, UK, July.