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Thanks, I think you're right. The pic doesn't show the tell-tale markings on the dorsal surface which would make the ID easy. I had been told that the Common Hawker was actually common in these parts, but looking for more identifying features I've found that's not the case. We have Southern...

Common Hawkers (edit; probably Migrant Hawkers, - thanks Darrel) having a good time. The lock keeper tending his garden.

My late father knew Jenny Owen, who identified (with the help of her university colleagues) 2204 species of insect in her (not huge) garden, including 60 not previously recorded in Britain and six that were new to science. And lots of other creatures too. She wrote a book, Wildlife Of A Garden...

Species with pendulous flowers and smooth fruits are now Brugmansia. The ones with upright flowers and spiny fruit are still Datura. Normally pollinated by hummingbirds, but I wouldn't be surprised if bees or moths could do the job; however, natural seed dispersal is believed to have been by...

Yes, very. Better not then :)

The butterfly looks like a swallowtail, but not the British species that now lives only in the Norfolk broads. As @Gavin3171 is in Essex, it could be a visitor from Europe. It looks similar to the Citrus Swallowtail, but that one is American.

You're not training them right :)

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Very nice. :)

There's a plug-in for GIMP to handle RAW; Opening RAW Images In GIMP with UFRaw For Windows - The Basics - Digital Photography School

The Gimp can do most of what Photoshop can do, with the advantage of being FREE. :) GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Thanks for the ID, Darrel. :)

I love moths, and insects generally. Does any-one know what this one is? They love my lillies, guzzle the nectar.

Those thinner versions of dragonflies are damselflies. The translucent thing you can see under it is the empty skin it has emerged from. It probably arrived on plants as you suspect, either as a tiny larva (technically a nymph) or an egg. Letting it outside seems the kindest thing to do for it...