New Royal Mail stamps to celebrate UK's brilliant bugs
- Published
There are six stamps in the set, each featuring a pollinating insect - one that moves pollen between plants so that they can reproduce.
The set includes this common carder bee as well as other "often overlooked" pollinators such as moths, beetles, hoverflies and wasps.
Each stamp shows the insect on the type of flower that it often visits. Here's the elephant hawk-moth on honeysuckle - great name!
They might be small but this longhorn beetle, along with the other pollinating insects, does an important job moving pollen from one plant to another.
This marmalade hoverfly gets its name from its orange colour, and the different sized black bands across its body - 'thin cut', 'thick cut' - just like marmalade.
And last in this set is the colourful, glittering, metallic ruby-tailed wasp.
They're all part of the Royal Mail's new stamp collection illustrated by wildlife artist Richard Lewington.
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