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Summer Colours at Gunnersbury Triangle

Thick-kneed flower beetle (metallic iridescent green and gold) on Poppy (red, pink, orange, there are plenty of colours in there!, with violet stigmas)
Crab Spider scarily camouflaged on Hogweed: whitish-green and bright red, curiously
Caterpillar of Angle Shades moth, magnificent in bright green and turquoise. Its food plants include Bramble, Hazel, Hops, Birch, and Oak, all of which are found here.