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The answer is three! There is a large frog poking out of the water, one small frog perched on a stem in the middle and one tadpole in the water beneath it. Gold star to anyone who spotted the large frog hiding at the back! 🌟

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Well done!

It is indeed a buff-tip caterpillar! They are big, hairy and yellow with a black head and a ring of short black stripes, and often gather together in large numbers. Buff-tip moths blend in perfectly as they look just like the twig of a birch tree! 🐛🌳

They're nursery web spiderlings in a protective web that mum has spun to protect them 😊

These are nursery web spiderlings...when mum can feel that the spiderlings are hatching in the egg-sac she carries, she spins a protective web for them to emerge within. Mum patrols the outside of the web to keep them safe until they disperse - just like in this photo 👇

Wow, you lucky thing 😍

Well done, great photo. They're gorgeous aren't they!

Very good guess as they look very similar, it's a hornet mimic hoverfly 🐝

It's a hornet mimic hoverfly! At almost 2cm long, it's the largest hoverfly species in the UK. As its name suggests, it is an excellent mimic of the hornet, but is harmless to us. 🐝

Ahh beautiful 😍

Good guess! It's an emperor moth caterpillar 🦋🐛

The lovely caterpillar will turn into a beautiful emperor moth! An unmistakeable insect of heaths, sand dunes and grasslands, the emperor moth is fluffy, grey-brown, with big peacock-like eyespots on all four wings. 😍🦋

That's wonderful - sounds like your garden is a haven for wildlife 😀

gold star for no cheating 😄⭐ it's a buff-tip moth!

Yes, a buff-tip moth! 😀

Well done everyone, it is a buff-tip moth! It is a master of disguise, blending in perfectly as it looks just like the twig of a birch tree! Flying only at night, the buff-tip moth can be seen from May to July.

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Yes - it's a male banded demoiselle 😊

Yes, this is a close-up of the wing of a male banded demoiselle. Look for these beautiful damselflies along slow-flowing rivers, ponds and lakes - their fluttering flight and the 'fingerprint' dark spot on their wings gives them a distinctive look 👀💙