The British Ecological Society’s annual photo competition gathered over 200 entries setting a new record for the competition. The photos showed the beauties of nature from around the world with a variety of flora and fauna.
The winning shot was taken in Swedish PhD student Alejandro Ruete’s back yard and shows a hoverfly perched atop a globe thistle. “This is a tiny example of ecology that is going on in our backyards,” said Mr. Ruete of his work, titled “Kiss in the backyard.”
The Swedish Kiss in the Backyard
The annual competition is open to all members of the British Ecological Society.
Adult Gannet leads three immature birds through the cliffs of Hermaness at the Northern Point of the British Isles
African flower mantis decapitates a butterfly in Kenya
Blow flies decapitating a young zebra
Death Valley
Dragonflies caught in the act of mating
An elephant matriarch leads her herd
Moths attracted to floodlamps at the West National Park in Kenya
A newly-emerged butterfly on barley crop
Shot of a dice snake tasting air in Romania
A dragonfly trapped in a carnivorous plant in a Siberian bog
A school of Sparidae fish
Walking the line
A yellow-legged gull looking over Rome
