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Common Scorpionfly (Panorpa communis) - Cullompton Leat Fields, Devon - 18 May 2018 by Dis da fi we Panorpa communis can reach a body length of about 30 millimetres (1.2 in). The common scorpionfly has a black and yellow body, with a reddish head and tail. The male has a pair of claspers at the end of its tail (for holding the female during mating), giving it a scorpion-like appearance, although it is not a stinger. The adult is seen between May and September. [5] They eat dead insects (although they sometimes eat live aphids), sometimes taking them from spider webs[5] and plant sap.[8] Although fully winged, the adults rarely fly very far and spend much of their time crawling on vegetation in damp, shaded places near water and along hedgerows. Panorpa communis is an univoltine species. Eggs are laid in soil annually and the larvae both scavenge and pupate there. https://flic.kr/p/26oTWmw

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on the way to somewhere - creeping thistle - Culm River, Cullompton, Devon - 13 July 2018 by Dis da fi we Cirsium arvense is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native throughout Europe and northern Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere. The standard English name in its native area is creeping thistle. The plant is beneficial for pollinators that rely on nectar. It also was a top producer of nectar sugar in a 2016 study in Britain, with a second-place ranking due to a production per floral unit of (2609 +/- 239 μg). https://flic.kr/p/2a5nCxj

snail - Cullompton Leat Fields, Devon - 18 May 2018 by Dis da fi we Snails’ ancestors are one of the earliest known types of animals in the world. There is fossil evidence of primitive gastropods dating back to the late Cambrian period; they lived nearly 500 million years ago. There are many types of snails, but they fundamentally differ because they are aquatic or terrestrial. All land snails are gastropod mollusks, meaning that they belong to the same group of octopuses, which are part of the phylum Mollusca. At the same time, they are members of the class Gastropoda, which includes all snails and slugs. https://flic.kr/p/28k1XHd