You can see it particularly on horse chestnuts, and in young hawthorn leaves. There is a period of about 10 days after the new leaves emerge on certain trees when their green is of a quite stunning iridescent brilliance, which soon fades and is not seen again till the following year. Lesser spotted woodpeckers are tumbling in numbers all over Britain no-one really knows why. It's hard enough to see anyway, but now, before all the leaves appear on the trees, is the best time to glimpse this scarce, minuscule, magical bird, the size of a Mars bar with a brilliant scarlet crest. The wing pattern of male orange tips, bold orange next to bright white, obeys these rules, and makes them the spring's most brilliant butterfly. In flag design, 'colours' вЂ“ red, blue, green, etc вЂ“ must always be placed next to 'metals' вЂ“ gold and silver, and by extension, yellow and white, so that they stand out. Each year they found a new colony and start laying eggs, and female and then male bumblebees gradually emerge. You may have noticed that the bumblebees you are seeing at the moment appear particularly rotund and fat: this is because they are all queens, as only the fertilised queens survive the winter.

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