Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna), Westover Plantation © HH

Banded hoverfly. © MVC

Bullhead, Lukely Brook. © KM

White Spined Tree Bracket © anon

Cheverton Down Quarry © GT

Common Darter, immature female © KM

Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris), a rare chalk downland plant, on Brook Down © HH

Great Green Bush Cricket, Redway © KM

Meeting at Corfe. © MW

Niger (Guizotia abyssinica), Gaggerhill Farm. © GT

Roastbeef plant (Iris foetidissima) on Mersley Down © GT

Lichen on Bonchurch Down. © GT

Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puba) near Wheelers Bay © HS

prawn (Palaemon elegans) © anon

Puff-ball, Wroxall Heath © GT

Wren`s Nest © anon

Harlequin Ladybird larva © GTa

Libellula depressa immature male Newtown © DD

Pale Flax (Linum bienne) now very scarce and usually found in small numbers. Here at Princeslade. © GT

Nigel Tibbutt, Rope Making © MC

Rope Making Meeting hosted by Nigel Tibbutt © LS

Purple Broomrape (Orobanche purpurea), very rare, in Sandown. © GT

Oxtongue Broomrape (Orobanche artemisiae-campestris), Compton© GT

Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) near Whale Chine © GT

Red-bottomed Bee. Bee's bottoms vary widely and we have reports of other hues as well. © PD

Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula), in a pond in a Ventnor garden. © HS

Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula), another shot of it. © HS

Sericomyia silentis, a Hoverfly, from the watermeadows of the Eastern Yar. © DD

Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum) in flower, close to Sandown © GT

Field Woundwort (Stachys arvensis) Cridmore © GT

Tadpoles metamorphosing at Carisbrooke © KM

On top of the barrow on Brighstone Forest Barrows Walk © RP

Discussion during Brighstone Forest Barrows Walk © RP

On top of Gallibury Hump © RP

Walking to the sites on Mottistone Down © RP

Gallibury Down, listening to the master © RP