A British Instructional Film. Woman in a kind of milkmaid's outfit wanders through a sunny meadow. Pastoral scenes and lyrical voiceover. “Deep carpet of lush green grass starred with flowers.“ M/S of woman walking through a field with thigh high Marguerite. Other meadow flowers are mentioned: dandelions, buttercups, clover, thistle. Pan over flower filled meadows. Milkmaid wanders down a step hill covered with flowers. C/U of woman crouching in the flowers about to pick one. C/U of her hands as she looks at a stem of grass - a ladybird crawls over the grass onto the woman's hands. C/U of the ladybird as it crawls on a stem covered with aphids. We see the ladybird sucking on an aphid. C/U of the “ragged robin“ flower. C/U of cotton grass seed heads, dandelion clocks, hares foot trefoil (?) and yarrow. C/U of bee crawling inside a flower. It re-emerges. We then see other insects feeding from flowers. The narrator draws our attention to the way the pollen is brushed onto the insect from the flowe
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