The rose chafer can be spotted on garden flowers, as well as in grassland, woodland edges and scrub.

This metallic green beetle can be seen visiting flowers on sunny days in spring and summer.

The little grebe is a fantastic diver, but to help it swim underwater, its feet are placed towards the back of its body, making it rather clumsy on land. It only really comes ashore to breed.

This brightly-coloured beetle is often found feeding on flowers on warm days in late spring and summer.

One of our largest soldier beetles, often found on flowers where they hunt other insects.

Great mullein is an impressive, tall plant of waste ground, roadside verges and gardens. Its candle-like flower spikes rise from rosettes of furry, silver-green leaves.

The disc-shaped leaves and straw-coloured flower spikes of Navelwort help to identify this plant. As does its habitat - look for it growing from crevices in rocks, walls and stony areas.

The distinctive spiky, or 'bearded', green flower heads of wall barley appear from June to July and are easy to spot in an urban environment as they push their way up through pavements…