A member of the buttercup family, Common water-crowfoot displays white, buttercup-like flowers with yellow centres. It can form mats in ponds, ditches and streams during spring and summer.

Look out for the white, umbrella-like flower heads of lesser water-parsnip along the shallow margins of ditches, ponds, lakes and rivers. When crushed, it does, indeed, smell like parsnip!

This fluffy moth is one of the few species that fly in winter.

This colourful fly can be found on flowers in wooded areas.

This flightless relative of the scorpionfly roams across clumps of moss in winter.