Common red soldier / Black-tipped soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) nectar feeding on a Ragwort flower (Senecio jacobaea) in a meadow, UK.

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Common red soldier / Black-tipped soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) nectar feeding on a Ragwort flower (Senecio jacobaea) in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

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Size: 4152px × 2768px
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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