North Pennines AONB – Jigsaw puzzles

The second part of this project was to illustrate the life cycles of three species for a set of jigsaw puzzles to be used in the visitor centre.

Illustration showing an adult bilberry bumblebee sitting on some bilberry twigs in the top section, bottom section shows three different stages of development in the egg, eggs, larva and pupa. They are placed in front of a background showing typical Northern Pennines landscape.
Illustration showing four different stages of the development of lapwings, an adult at the top next to a nest with eggs, a juvenile in the bottom right corner and a chick in the bottom left. They are placed in front of a background showing typical Northern Pennines landscape.
Illustration of a head of the melancholy thistle at different stages of its life cycle in front of a blue background. At the top is a thistle in full bloom, being visited by a large white (butterfly). Underneath is a seedling, and underneath that a ripe seed head. They are framed by thistle plants and flying thistledown.

The three species chosen were the bilberry bumblebee (Bombus monticola), the Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), and the melancholy thistle (Cirsium heterophyllum).

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