Wildflower lawn flowers and insects

 

My wildflower lawn is full of buttercups now.  And feeding on the pollen is Malachius bipustulatus, a beetle, which feeds mainly on grass pollen but here on a buttercup.  The larvae hunt other insects under loose bark.  Ref: Collins complete guide to British insects. 

A dozen Common-spotted orchids are pushing up their flower stems.

And a Southern Marsh orchid flower is further advanced.