Your pictures on the theme of 'garden wildlife'

Paul Mazurek: "Two ruby-throated hummingbirds visit my backyard feeder in Richmond, Kentucky."

Martin Paterson: "St Andrew's cross spider. Common in Sydney spring gardens and useful for keeping down flies and mosquitoes, as well as scaring young children. Mostly harmless."

Joan Tollerton: "This guy surprised me when I looked into the crevice."

Tracey Reid: "Puzzlewood. You may spot the coloured witch that inhabits there."

Hellen van der Maazen captured a cabbage white butterfly on a hortensia in her back garden.

George Olney : "Sometimes I find strange wildlife looking at me from inside our Mexican garden."

Helen Jackson: "This cheeky urban fox is hiding among the ivy near the top of my shed."

Ian Barnes: "I though airport arrival and departure slots were tight"

Elvira Toby: "Robins visit our back garden all year round."

Lynette Cuming: "This lovely lady was catching some precarious late fall sun."

Eli Decker: "Totally surprised one morning to discover this colourful monarch caterpillar devouring milkweed on my garden perch."

Kare Pele: "Garden wildlife outside where I work in Maui, which has an older garden by the sea that attracts passing birds, and is home to geckos, lizards and an assortment of other creatures."

Zach Bailey: "A steller's jay caught in the middle of jumping branch to branch looking for a quick bite to eat. I spent about an hour playing various calls from the steller's jay and finally found a few that caught its attention long enough to snap this photo."

Leanne Reynolds: "We watched the hummingbirds fly and fight in a friend's garden this summer in America. They get quite feisty."

Nicola Sutherland: "I caught this not-so-little fellow in my herb pot. On moving him he came out to say hello."

Debbie Freeland: "An iguana taking a sip from a puddle in Colombia."

And finally, Jason Shrubb sent this in this picture entitled "Various weeds". The next theme is "queuing" and the deadline for entries is 12 November 2019. Send pictures to yourpics@bbc.co.uk or follow the link to "Upload your pictures here" below. Further details and terms can be found by following the link to "We set the theme, you take the pictures," at the bottom of the page.