14090414 - Desert moss and crustose lichens on sandstone near Moab, Utah.71448837 - Rose petals in the morning light71448233 - Rose petals in the morning light71448215 - Siberian iris, Iris sibirica, meadow iris71445707 - Siberian iris, Iris sibirica, meadow iris71442341 - Pasqueflower, pasqueflower, Pulsatilla vulgaris71440295 - Red flowering Red hot poker, Kniphofia, Giant's Castle, Drakensberg Mountains, Kwa Zulu Natal, Maloti-Drakensberg UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Africa71440269 - Yellow flowering daisy family, Asteracea, Valley View, Lotheni, Drakensberg Mountains, Kwa Zulu Natal, Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site, South Africa71440234 - water in the form of drops71437447 - Shrub with red berries, covered by hoarfrost, Lake Fuschl, Salzkammergut, Salzkammergut Mountains, Salzburg, Austria71436581 - White flowering Saxifrage, Circo de Olibon, Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain71435504 - Rhododendron Garden in Graal-Müritz, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Baltic Sea, Northern Germany, Germany71434875 - Blossoming cherry tree above Engenhahn in the Taunus, Niedernhausen, Hesse, Germany71434873 - Cherry blossoms in the meadow orchards near Engenhahn, Niedernhausen, Hesse, Germany71434503 - Forget-me-nots (Myosotis) in Woodchester Park, Nympsfield, Gloucestershire, England71434450 - Iris plant in the gardens of Lacock Abbey, England, UK71434396 - Houseleek plant in the garden of St. Michael`s Mount, Cornwall, England71434345 - Purple flower in the garden at Trengwainton, Cornwall, England71432890 - Pasque flower, Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris71432820 - Grape hyacinths, muscari71432312 - Pasque flower, Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris71429873 - Oak ram buck, mating (Plagionotus arcuatus), Upper Bavaria, Germany71425108 - Hoar frost on rose petals, Allgäu Alps, Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe71425107 - Hoar frost on rose petals, Allgäu Alps, Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe13999221 - Gray Hop Sage,Grayia spinosa,in bloom in Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah.13849250 - Calliphora vicina or blue bottle fly; with its very characteristic bright orange cheeks13848992 - A detail of a Parasitic mite on a bee wing, it also show the texture of some pollen grains; 100:1 magnification13848899 - Argiope bruennichi or wasp spider; like other members in the Argiope fmily, it shows striking yellow and black markings on its abdomen. This is one of the two argiopes found in Spain13848434 - They are usually small, less than 6 millimetres in length, and herbivorous. There are over 60,000 species in several families, mostly in the family Curculionidae13848288 - Portrait of a Grasshoper; it has a very unusual nuclear symbol like vertex13848217 - A beautiful and yet small jumping spider; They have good vision and use it for hunting and navigating. They are capable of jumping from place to place, secured by a silk tether13848185 - Bush crickets have very small wings, the pronotum resembles a saddle. The atrophied wings of Ephippiger species are unfit to flight and only used for the emission of sounds. This one has some parasitic mites on it13847997 - Nezara viridula or green stink bug; a species originary from Ethiopia but found all over the world, this one is covered in pollen13847904 - A top vie of Chrysolina americana thorax; showing detail of the pronotum, scutellum and elytron13847702 - Calliphora vicina or blue bottle fly; takes its common name from the blue/gray coloration inthorax and abdomen, it has very characteristic bright orange cheeks13847564 - California Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus cylindraceus); Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, southwestern USA..13847325 - Detail of the ommatidea of a black soldier fly13847211 - True bug eggs on a wild flower; they allways lay eggs on floating plant parts, like leaves or this flower13847008 - True bugs have modified piercing and sucking mouthparts; some suck plant juices and are plant pests, while others can bite painfully.13846955 - A close up of a Nezara viridula, showing a ocelli and the ommatidium of a compoud eyes, orange spots are pollen grains and texture can be apreciatted13846893 - Sawflies are insects belonging to suborder Symphyta of the order Hymenoptera. The common name comes from the saw-like appearance of the ovipositor, which the females use to cut into the plants where they lay their eggs.13846476 - A Hybomitra affinis, horse fly. Horse flies are often large and agile in flight, and the females bite animals, including humans, to obtain blood. They prefer to fly in sunlight, avoiding dark and shady areas, and are inactive at night.13846115 - A Mud dauber portrait; its name comes from the nests that are made by the females, which consist of mud molded into place by the wasp's13845913 - The Coreidae are a large family of predominantly sap-sucking insects in the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera.13845793 - This particular species of longhorn beetle can damage cereal crops but not to an extent of being considered a pest13837348 - Thorns of an agave species. La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.13835542 - Close up portrit of a male lion, Panthera leo. Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana13835537 - Close up portrait of a white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, looking at the camera. Kalahari, Botswana13835418 - An African elephant, Loxodonta africana, eating grass in Chobe National Park's Savuti marsh. Botswana.13821373 - Edmundsella pedata nudibranch13821323 - Couple of Pontohi pigmy seahorses13821288 - Ethusa mascarone crab bringing mussel shell, Numana, Italy13821286 - Couple of Simnia spelta sea snail laying eggs on Leptogorgia sarmentosa gorgonian, Numana, Italy13821285 - Macropodia rostrata crab on a Sabella spallanzanii fan worm, Numana, Italy13821274 - Favorinus branchialis nudibranch eating eggs of Dendrodoris limbata nudibranch, Numana, Italy13821270 - Parablennius incognitus blenny, Numana, Italy13821260 - Pagurus prideaux crab living symbiotically with the sea anemone Adamsia palliata, Numana, Italy13821227 - Clos up of one of the most beautiful nudibranchs in the Mediterranean, the Antiopella cristata, Italy13821225 - Juvenile Atlantic horse mackerel fishes (Trachurus trachurus) find refuge in the lobes of a mediterranean fried egg jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata), a typical symbiosis of our seas.13821224 - Close of portrait of a Pearly Razorfish or Cleaver Wrasse (Xyrichtys novacula), one of the most shy and elusive fish in the Mediterranean, Italy13821222 - A couple of butterfly blenny (Blennius ocellaris) peeps out from inside a fan mussel (Pinna nobilis), that they chose as the nest for hatching their eggs.13821210 - A beautiful Godiva quadricolor nudibranch lays its eggs on a plastic bottle.13778270 - A seastar (Fromia sp.) on a red fan of gorgonian coral; Fiji13778265 - This Orange-fin anemonefish (Amphiprion chrysopterus) is pictured hiding in it's host anemone; Philippines13776729 - Sunlight streaming through a forest of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), off Santa Barbara Island; California, United States of America71448234 - Rose petals in the morning light71448217 - Siberian iris, Iris sibirica, meadow iris71448214 - Lady's slipper, Cypripedium calceolus71447412 - Burnt orchid, Neotinea ustulata, burnt orchid71445300 - Yellow blooming strawflowers with Drakensberg mountains out of focus in the background, Injasuthi, Drakensberg, Kwa Zulu Natal, UNESCO World Heritage Site Maloti-Drakensberg, South Africa71443298 - Mossy forest floor, Gunzesried, Germany71442349 - Pasqueflower, pasqueflower, Pulsatilla vulgaris71440277 - Pink helichrysum in bloom, Langalibalele Ridge, Giant's Castle, Drakensberg Mountains, Kwa Zulu Natal, Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site, South Africa71437446 - Shrub with red berries, covered by hoarfrost, Lake Fuschl, Salzkammergut, Salzkammergut Mountains, Salzburg, Austria71436620 - Imperial mantle sitting on thistle, Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, Catalonia, Pyrenees, Spain71436548 - Pink flowering Carthusian pinks, Pyrenees National Park, Pyrenees, France71436212 - Flowers in Tyntesfield Park near Bristol, North Somerset, England71436163 - Garden Poppy, Trerice House at Newquay, Cornwall, England71434867 - Spider web with morning dew in the Rheingau-Taunus Nature Park above Engenhahn, Niedernhausen, Hesse, Germany71434842 - Cherry blossoms in the early morning light in the meadow orchards of Engenhahn, Niedernhausen, Hesse, Germany71434451 - Infructescences of ornamental onions, England71434321 - Grasses in the moonlight at Durdle Door, West Lulworth, Dorset, England71433006 - Herald of Heaven growing on rock slab, Eritrichium nanum, Belluneser Höhenweg, Dolomites, Veneto, Venetia, Italy71432893 - Pasque flower, Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris71432888 - Pasque flower, Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris71432886 - Pasque flower, Pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris71432854 - Red forestbird, purple forestbird, Cephalanthera rubra71432852 - Red forestbird, purple forestbird, Cephalanthera rubra71425134 - Hoar frost at Forggensee near Schwangau, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe13849398 - The wing scales of the Lysandra bellargus, also known as Adonis blue; a quite common species in Spain. Small cactus-like scales can be seen between normal scales13849299 - Very high magnification shot of a silverfish eye; a special technique was used to reveal all the eye surface texture in order to get a SEM like image, but with colour.13849018 - These weevils are among the most colorfull ones in the world13848813 - Black soldier flies are common and widespread fly of the family Stratiomyidae. Neither the larvae nor adults are considered pests or vectors. Instead, black soldier fly larvae play a similar role to that of redworms as essential decomposers in breaking down organic substrates and returning nutrients to the soil/environment.13848795 - A common and widespread fly of the family Stratiomyidae, and quite possibly the best-known species in the entire infraorder. The larvae are used in manure management, for both house fly control and reduction in manure volume, and the mature larvae and prepupae raised in manure management operations are themselves useful as feed supplements13848292 - As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods.13848067 - A small jumping spider; these spiders make great hunters, using their very agile jumps giving their preys no time to react13847495 - Cercopis intermedia or froghopper; a close up of the head area; showing the compound eye and ocelli13847319 - Front view of a flower beetle; this species is covered with a thick and long tawny hair.13846973 - A head view of Chrysolina americana; magnification 6:1next page
