Pull focus to small tortoiseshell butterfly feeds on butterfly bush

Two male Stag Beetles fight each other.

Swallowtail butterfly inflates wings after emerging from chrysalis, detail of head and wings.

Blue Ulysses butterfly feeds on nectar from purple flower

Small beetle attempts to run up sliding slip face sands on desert dune

Dung beetle rolls ball of dung over savanna as second clings on

Beetle scuttles along stem of Venus fly trap before the flower captures and encloses the insect in its trap

Red butterfly feeding on orange flower,

Many fluttering wings of chequered swallowtail butterflies as they drink from spring in outback, Northern Territory, Australia

Large colourful birdwing butterfly flutters wings on Aristolochia stem, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Large iridescent stag beetle clambers over forest floor, Queensland

Group of colourful bugs mating on bush, Queensland

Pair of dance flies mate on leaf

Rove beetle uses its abdomen to fold away its long wings, UK

An orange and black butterfly flexes its wings on a tree branch with white blossoms.

A orange and white butterfly feeds from an acacia blossom.

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A bee collects nectar from the flower of an acacia thorn tree.

A blue butterfly hangs on the underside of a leaf.

A beetle sits on a plant with its wings outstretched.

A large beetle-like insect crawls away from a curious ant on a cactus branch.

A praying mantis sits on a branch.

Swarms of bees move near a Japanese giant hornet carcass.

A bee draws nectar from the center of a pink flower.

Harvester ants crawl back and forth on a log carrying leaves.

An insect grooms itself.