If you were to pick up a rock in the garden, you’d hopefully find a few common woodlouse. These hardy minibeasts have in-built armour and like to hide in warm, moist places like compost heaps.

The common sexton beetle is one of several burying beetle species in the UK. An undertaker of the animal world, it buries dead animals like mice and birds, and feeds and breeds on the corpses.

The caterpillars of this fluffy white moth are best admired from a distance, as their hairs can irritate the skin.

These mat like growths found on kelp and seaweed are actually colonies of tiny individuals animals.