View of Shenton village looking north-east along Bosworth Road, with the Church of St John the Evangelist obscured by a thatched, half-timber cottage
Field poppies in flower in an arable field east of Andoversford, immediately north of the A436, west of the Syreford - Shipton Road
Common Tachina (Tachina fera). The larvae of the Common Tachina are parasites, feeding specifically on caterpillars of noctuid moths including Ceramici pisi (Broom Moth), Cosmia trapezina (Dun-bar) and Orthosia cruda (Small Quaker)
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