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Tulip.
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Author: EncroVision
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Description: Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colours). They often have a different coloured blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally.
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Yellow Primula.
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Author: EncroVision
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Description: Primula is a complex and varied genus, with a range of habitats from alpine slopes to boggy meadows. Plants bloom
mostly during the spring, with flowers often appearing in spherical umbels on stout stems arising from basal rosettes of leaves; their flowers can be purple, yellow, red, pink, blue, or white.
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Dandelion Clock.
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Author: EncroVision
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Description: The species of Taraxacum are tap-rooted, perennial, herbaceous plants, native to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. The genus contains many species, which usually (or in the case of triploids, obligately) reproduce by apomixis, resulting in many local populations and endemism.
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Common Darter.
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Author: EncroVision
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Description: A summer and autumn species, this dragonfly can be found well into November and may be one of the last on the wing in the UK. The thorax in both sexes is brown above with poorly defined antehumeral stripes and yellow panels on the sides. The eyes are brown above and yellow below. The legs are black with a diagnostic yellow stripe along their length.
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Migrant Hawker.
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Author: EncroVision
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Description: Common and increasing its range. Strongholds in southern England, but now reaching well into northern England and recently appeared in Ireland. Continental migrants may boost the population in late summer.
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Sympetrum striolatum (Common Darter)
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Author: EncroVision
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Description: This is one of the smaller dragonflies. The male is orange-red but becoming brown with age. Females (and juvenile males) are yellowish to light brown. The immature male however has pinky red patches on the thorax and abdomen. This species is most likely to be confused with the Ruddy Darter, but the male of that species has a 'waisted' abdomen.
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Larinioides cornutus (Furrow Spider)
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Author: EncroVision
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Description: The web is built between grasses, or in low shrubbery. They hide during the day in a silken retreat that opens at the bottom, masked with plant and animal matter and leave it during the night. The web is remade in the evening. The male lives with the female during mating time, which is in autumn and again in spring. The female produces three to five yellow egg sacs during the summer.
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Mint Leaf Beetle.
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Author: EncroVision
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Description: The species is green, with black legs and antennae. Females can range in colour from green to purplish-grey. It can be 8-9mm long and has black coloured larvae, which also feed on the mint leaves (Chrysolina graminis).
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