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  • An adult female worker wasp Polistes sp. on a plant's stem. Polistes sp. typically feeds on insects, fresh or rotting meat, even fish. The meat is also fed to developing wasp larvae as a high protein diet. Photographed in Israel in October
    AM_Polistes_2081.jpg
  • Close-up of a patch of bright orange Trentepohlia sp. alga growing on rocks. The bright orange colour is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments that mask the green of the chlorophyll. Photographed in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
    IR_Wilde-Wasser-Weg_D9101.jpg
  • Close-up of a patch of bright orange Trentepohlia sp. alga growing on rocks. The bright orange colour is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments that mask the green of the chlorophyll. Photographed in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
    IR_Wilde-Wasser-Weg_D9138.jpg
  • Close-up of a patch of bright orange Trentepohlia sp. alga growing on rocks. The bright orange colour is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments that mask the green of the chlorophyll. Photographed in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
    IR_Wilde-Wasser-Weg_D9111.jpg
  • Close-up of a patch of bright orange Trentepohlia sp. alga growing on rocks. The bright orange colour is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments that mask the green of the chlorophyll. Photographed in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
    IR_Wilde-Wasser-Weg_D9113.jpg
  • Close-up of a patch of bright orange Trentepohlia sp. alga growing on rocks. The bright orange colour is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments that mask the green of the chlorophyll. Photographed in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
    IR_Wilde-Wasser-Weg_D9099.jpg
  • Close-up of a patch of bright orange Trentepohlia sp. alga growing on rocks. The bright orange colour is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments that mask the green of the chlorophyll. Photographed in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
    IR_Wilde-Wasser-Weg_D9104.jpg
  • Close-up of a patch of bright orange Trentepohlia sp. alga growing on rocks. The bright orange colour is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments that mask the green of the chlorophyll. Photographed in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
    IR_Wilde-Wasser-Weg_D9098.jpg
  • Close-up of a patch of bright orange Trentepohlia sp. alga growing on rocks. The bright orange colour is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments that mask the green of the chlorophyll. Photographed in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria.
    IR_Wilde-Wasser-Weg_D9135-Pano.jpg
  • A white Orchid (Phalaenopsis sp.) in flower on Black background
    AM_f_Orchid_671A4381.jpg
  • A white Orchid (Phalaenopsis sp.) in flower on Black background
    AM_f_Orchid_671A4375-1.jpg
  • Mudskipper (Periophthalmus sp.) crawling on a rock. This amphibious fish can climb and walk on land using its limb-like pectoral fins (one seen just behind the head). It breathes on land using highly vascular sacks on its mouth and gills. Its skin contains cells that are filled with a watery fluid, which cushion its movements. Its protruding eyes are adapted for vision above the water. The mudskipper is found in swamps, estuaries and mud flats from eastern Africa, through southern Asia, to Japan and Australia. Photographed in the Seychelles
    BT_mudhopper_51.jpg
  • Mudskipper (Periophthalmus sp.) crawling on a rock. This amphibious fish can climb and walk on land using its limb-like pectoral fins (one seen just behind the head). It breathes on land using highly vascular sacks on its mouth and gills. Its skin contains cells that are filled with a watery fluid, which cushion its movements. Its protruding eyes are adapted for vision above the water. The mudskipper is found in swamps, estuaries and mud flats from eastern Africa, through southern Asia, to Japan and Australia. Photographed in the Seychelles
    BT_mudhopper_50.jpg
  • Field with red salicornia Salt-tolerant plant. Saltwort plant (Salicornia sp.) growing in a soil with a high salt content. This plant is growing in the Evros (Maritsa) river delta, Greece
    VA_Evros-Delta_09839.jpg
  • Field with red salicornia Salt-tolerant plant. Saltwort plant (Salicornia sp.) growing in a soil with a high salt content. This plant is growing in the Evros (Maritsa) river delta, Greece
    VA_Evros-Delta_09837.jpg
  • Field with red salicornia Salt-tolerant plant. Saltwort plant (Salicornia sp.) growing in a soil with a high salt content. This plant is growing in the Evros (Maritsa) river delta, Greece
    VA_Evros-Delta_09688.jpg
  • Field with red salicornia Salt-tolerant plant. Saltwort plant (Salicornia sp.) growing in a soil with a high salt content. This plant is growing in the Evros (Maritsa) river delta, Greece
    VA_Evros-Delta_09685.jpg
  • Frogfish (Antennarius sp.) hidden amongst coral. The colouration of the frogfish provides it with camouflage against predators and for catching its prey. The frogfish attracts its prey by wiggling a lure (not seen) on its forehead, which simulates a small fish or shrimp. It lies motionless for long periods, pouncing when its prey comes near. Photographed in the Red Sea, Eilat, Israel
    HN_Red-Sea_HGI1387.jpg
  • Alpine wildflower, valerian (Valeriana Sp) Photographed in Austria, Tyrol
    IR_C4305_Austria_1.jpg
  • A white Orchid (Phalaenopsis sp.) in flower on white background
    AM_f_Orchid_671A4438.jpg
  • extreme closeup of a white Orchid (Phalaenopsis sp.) in flower.
    AM_f_Orchid_671A4247.jpg
  • Field with red salicornia Salt-tolerant plant. Saltwort plant (Salicornia sp.) growing in a soil with a high salt content. This plant is growing in the Evros (Maritsa) river delta, Greece
    VA_Evros-Delta_09686.jpg
  • Field with red salicornia Salt-tolerant plant. Saltwort plant (Salicornia sp.) growing in a soil with a high salt content. This plant is growing in the Evros (Maritsa) river delta, Greece
    VA_Evros-Delta_09683.jpg
  • Centipede (Scolopendra sp.) on rocks
    AMS_f_Nature-083.jpg
  • Rose Rust fungus on a leaf. This disease is caused by the rust fungus Phragmidium sp.
    IR_Rose-Leaf_D3660.jpg
  • Rose Rust fungus on a leaf. This disease is caused by the rust fungus Phragmidium sp.
    IR_Rose-Leaf_D3657.jpg
  • Israel, Eilat, Red Sea, - Underwater photograph of a Brain coral (Favia sp.) with extended Polyps at night.
    HN_Underwater_1250.jpg
  • Israel, Eilat, Red Sea, - Underwater photograph of a Star coral (Favia sp.) with extended Polyps at night.
    HN_Underwater_1227.jpg
  • Israel, Eilat, Red Sea, - Underwater photograph of a Star coral (Favia sp.) with extended Polyps at night.
    HN_Underwater_1224.jpg
  • Pair of fleas mating (Pyrrhocoridae sp) on a leaf Also known as firebugs Photographed in Greece
    VA_f_flower_DSC01996.jpg
  • Digitally enhance image of an African ground squirrel (Xerus sp.). These rodents live in open arid areas of southern Africa where they feed on grasses, roots, seeds and insects. They are social animals living in colonies or between 5 and 30 individuals that dig extensive burrow systems. Photographed in Namibia.
    AG_f_Squirrel_WPAP.jpg
  • Caterpillars of a processionary moth (Thaumetopoea Sp.)
    DN_f_Greece_DAN4371.jpg
  • Tsetse fly (Glossina sp.) trap. The poison coated blue colour attracts the flies and helps combat diseases spread by this biting fly. Photographed in Tanzania, Africa
    GS_Tanzania_131.jpg
  • ripe orang pumpkins in Pumpkin field. Pumpkins (Cucurbita sp.) growing in a field. These plants produce large edible fruits. Photographed in Neustift, Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria in September
    IR_f_Pumpkin_D8688.jpg
  • ripe orang pumpkins in Pumpkin field. Pumpkins (Cucurbita sp.) growing in a field. These plants produce large edible fruits. Photographed in Neustift, Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria in September
    IR_f_Pumpkin_D8687.jpg
  • Flock of domestic Free-range chickens (Gallus sp.) feeding in a farm yard Photographed in Tyrol Austria
    IR_C4688_Austria.jpg
  • Slate pencil sea urchin (Heterocentrotus sp.) on a reef. The sea urchin is a marine invertebrate of the phylum Echinodermata that includes starfish. Like a starfish, a sea urchin has five-fold radial symmetry. The arms have fused to form a spherical shell from which protective spines protrude. Here, the spines are thick to withstand the turbulent water of its shallow water habitat. This urchin is named for the fact that its spines were used to write on blackboards. A sea urchin uses tube feet on its underside to crawl over rocks. Its mouth is also on its underside, and its five jaws scrape up algae (microscopic plants) growing on the rock. Photographed at the Ras Mohammed National Park, Red Sea, Sinai, Egypt,
    HN_Underwater_4835.jpg
  • a flock of pelicans (Pelecanus sp.) Pelicans are found on all continents except Antarctica, occurring mainly in warmer regions. Photographed at Agamon lake, Hula Valley, Israel, in November
    SL_Hula-Birds_4666.jpg
  • Two Diagonal Butterflyfish (Chaetodon fasciatus), also known as the Red Sea Raccoon Butterflyfish, swim over a Brain coral (Favia sp.) This species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae) is endemic to the Red Sea
    HN_Underwater_1930.jpg
  • Digitally enhance image of an African ground squirrel (Xerus sp.). These rodents live in open arid areas of southern Africa where they feed on grasses, roots, seeds and insects. They are social animals living in colonies or between 5 and 30 individuals that dig extensive burrow systems. Photographed in Namibia.
    AG_f_Squirrel_fairy.jpg
  • Digitally enhance image of an African ground squirrel (Xerus sp.). These rodents live in open arid areas of southern Africa where they feed on grasses, roots, seeds and insects. They are social animals living in colonies or between 5 and 30 individuals that dig extensive burrow systems. Photographed in Namibia.
    AG_f_Squirrel_collage.jpg
  • Digitally enhance image of an African ground squirrel (Xerus sp.). These rodents live in open arid areas of southern Africa where they feed on grasses, roots, seeds and insects. They are social animals living in colonies or between 5 and 30 individuals that dig extensive burrow systems. Photographed in Namibia.
    AG_f_Squirrel_Circles-l.jpg
  • African ground squirrel (Xerus sp.). These rodents live in open arid areas of southern Africa where they feed on grasses, roots, seeds and insects. They are social animals living in colonies or between 5 and 30 individuals that dig extensive burrow systems. Photographed in Namibia.
    AG_f_Squirrel_2.jpg
  • Mouldy citrus clementine fruit. Penicillium sp. fungus growing on a Citrus fruit. The fungus has spread over the surface of the fruit, producing a network (mycelium, white) of fine filaments (hyphae). It has also produced spores (green/grey), which may spread to infect other fruit. The fungus penetrates downwards into the fruit, digesting and absorbing nutrients. Most or all of the fruit will have decayed within a few days.
    SL_Mould_LS2_0999.jpg
  • Mouldy fridge stored Cucumber. Close-up of mould (Rhizopus sp.) growing on a cucumber. The cucumber has become overgrown with fungal mycelium, a network of branching hyphae (thin threads). Some of the hyphae bear fruiting bodies, or sporangia (black dots), the reproductive part of the fungi that contain spores, the reproductive cell.
    SL_Mould_LS2_0801.jpg
  • Mouldy fridge stored Cucumber. Close-up of mould (Rhizopus sp.) growing on a cucumber. The cucumber has become overgrown with fungal mycelium, a network of branching hyphae (thin threads). Some of the hyphae bear fruiting bodies, or sporangia (black dots), the reproductive part of the fungi that contain spores, the reproductive cell.
    SL_Mould_LS2_0799.jpg
  • Mouldy citrus clementine fruit. Penicillium sp. fungus growing on a Citrus fruit. The fungus has spread over the surface of the fruit, producing a network (mycelium, white) of fine filaments (hyphae). It has also produced spores (green/grey), which may spread to infect other fruit. The fungus penetrates downwards into the fruit, digesting and absorbing nutrients. Most or all of the fruit will have decayed within a few days.
    SL_Mould_LS2_0997.jpg
  • Caterpillars of a processionary moth (Thaumetopoea Sp.)
    DN_f_Greece_DAN4381.jpg
  • close up of ripe orang pumpkins in Pumpkin field. Pumpkins (Cucurbita sp.) growing in a field. These plants produce large edible fruits. Photographed in Neustift, Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria in September
    IR_f_Pumpkin_D8690.jpg
  • close up of ripe orang pumpkins in Pumpkin field. Pumpkins (Cucurbita sp.) growing in a field. These plants produce large edible fruits. Photographed in Neustift, Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria in September
    IR_f_Pumpkin_D8689.jpg
  • blossom of a pumpkins in Pumpkin field. Pumpkins (Cucurbita sp.) growing in a field. These plants produce large edible fruits. Photographed in Neustift, Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria in September
    IR_f_Pumpkin_D8685.jpg
  • blossom of a pumpkins in Pumpkin field. Pumpkins (Cucurbita sp.) growing in a field. These plants produce large edible fruits. Photographed in Neustift, Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria in September
    IR_f_Pumpkin_D8682.jpg
  • Flowerhead of an Onion (Allium sp.) Photographed in May
    IR_f_Purple_D7211.jpg
  • Flock of domestic Free-range chickens (Gallus sp.) feeding in a farm yard Photographed in Tyrol Austria
    IR_C4679_Austria.jpg
  • The pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) is a moth of the family Thaumetopoeidae. It is one of the most destructive species to pines and cedars in Central Asia, North Africa and the countries of southern Europe. The urticating hairs of the caterpillar larvae cause harmful reactions in humans and other mammals. The species is notable for the behaviour of its caterpillars, which overwinter in tent-like nests high in pine trees, and which proceed through the woods in nose-to-tail columns, protected by their severely irritating hairs. Photographed in Portugal in October
    IR_f_Portugal_E6209.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert. A Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar-Partridge_DSC05680.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert.  a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar_DSC05712.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert.  a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar_DSC05698.jpg
  • The pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) is a moth of the family Thaumetopoeidae. It is one of the most destructive species to pines and cedars in Central Asia, North Africa and the countries of southern Europe. The urticating hairs of the caterpillar larvae cause harmful reactions in humans and other mammals. The species is notable for the behaviour of its caterpillars, which overwinter in tent-like nests high in pine trees, and which proceed through the woods in nose-to-tail columns, protected by their severely irritating hairs. Photographed in Portugal in October
    IR_f_Portugal_E6210.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert.  a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar_EYL02196.jpg
  • Fiddler crab (Uca tetragonon) male Photographed in a Mangrove swamp, Seychelles Curieuse Island in September
    BT_Fiddler-crab_24.jpg
  • Fiddler crab (Uca tetragonon) male Photographed in a Mangrove swamp, Seychelles Curieuse Island in September
    BT_Fiddler-crab_20.jpg
  • Mealy bugs on a leaf. Cluster of mealy bugs (Pseudococcidae) on the underside of a lemon tree leaf. Photographed in Israel
    IR_Garden_D5534.jpg
  • Sooty mold (black) and Mealy bugs on a citrus leaf. Cluster of mealy bugs (Pseudococcidae) on the underside of a lemon tree leaf together with Sooty mold that feeds off the honeydew secreted by the mealybugs. Photographed in Israel
    IR_Garden_D5525.jpg
  • Common Chiffchaff, or simply the Chiffchaff, (Phylloscopus collybita) on a branch
    AM_Chiffchaff_4213.jpg
  • purple dye murex (Bolinus brandaris) (Gastropod) on a beach in Israel, a sea snail. Murex was at one time greatly valued as the source for purple dye. It discharges a purple ink from the hypobranchial gland in the mantle cavity as a smoke screen, from behind which it can flee. The Phoenicians, centred on Tyre, gathered the snails, crushed & boiled them with salt for several days to extract the ink. The liquid was allowed to cool & over a period of time the colour changed for yellow to green to blue & then a rich purple. The extraction of the ink & the manufacture of purple cloth made Tyre a household word in the past.
    AM_f_murex_671A6295.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert. A Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar-Partridge_006.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert. A Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar-Partridge_005.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert. A Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar-Partridge_001.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert.  a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar_EYL02187.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert.  a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar_EYL02161.jpg
  • Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) Photographed in Israel, Near a water pool Negev desert.  a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of the Middle East and temperate Asia.
    BT_f_Chukar_EYL01753.jpg
  • purple dye murex (Bolinus brandaris) (Gastropod) on a beach in Israel, a sea snail. Murex was at one time greatly valued as the source for purple dye. It discharges a purple ink from the hypobranchial gland in the mantle cavity as a smoke screen, from behind which it can flee. The Phoenicians, centred on Tyre, gathered the snails, crushed & boiled them with salt for several days to extract the ink. The liquid was allowed to cool & over a period of time the colour changed for yellow to green to blue & then a rich purple. The extraction of the ink & the manufacture of purple cloth made Tyre a household word in the past.
    AM_Murex_671A3365-1.jpg
  • purple dye murex (Bolinus brandaris) (Gastropod) on a beach in Israel, a sea snail. Murex was at one time greatly valued as the source for purple dye. It discharges a purple ink from the hypobranchial gland in the mantle cavity as a smoke screen, from behind which it can flee. The Phoenicians, centred on Tyre, gathered the snails, crushed & boiled them with salt for several days to extract the ink. The liquid was allowed to cool & over a period of time the colour changed for yellow to green to blue & then a rich purple. The extraction of the ink & the manufacture of purple cloth made Tyre a household word in the past.
    AM_Murex_671A1471.jpg
  • purple dye murex (Bolinus brandaris) (Gastropod) on a beach in Israel, a sea snail. Murex was at one time greatly valued as the source for purple dye. It discharges a purple ink from the hypobranchial gland in the mantle cavity as a smoke screen, from behind which it can flee. The Phoenicians, centred on Tyre, gathered the snails, crushed & boiled them with salt for several days to extract the ink. The liquid was allowed to cool & over a period of time the colour changed for yellow to green to blue & then a rich purple. The extraction of the ink & the manufacture of purple cloth made Tyre a household word in the past.
    AM_Murex_671A1401-5.jpg
  • Echinops adenocaulos, Common Globe thistle. Photographed in the Golan Heights, Israel
    AH_f_Thistle_DSC05499.jpg
  • Echinops adenocaulos, Common Globe thistle. Photographed in the Carmel Mountain, Israel in June
    AH_f_Nesher_9990865.jpg
  • The urnlike insect trap of the carnivorous pitcher plant, Nepenthes pervillei. The pitcher (up to 30cm high) is an elaborate extension of the midrib of the leaf, which forms an insect trap. Its bright colours (often red) & the scent of nectar attract insects. The lid, closed during early development, opens at an angle to prevent rain filling the urn. Insects fall into the pitcher & drown in the sugary liquid produced by the plant & which contains digestive enzymes. Their digested bodies provide nitrogen compounds & proteins to the plant, which are absent from the poor soils they grow in. This is the only carnivorous pitcher plant found in the Seychelles. Photographed on Mount Copolia in the Morne Seychellois National Park
    BT_Pitcher-Plant_17.jpg
  • Fiddler crab (Uca tetragonon) male Photographed in a Mangrove swamp, Seychelles Curieuse Island in September
    BT_Fiddler-crab_26.jpg
  • Fiddler crab (Uca tetragonon) male Photographed in a Mangrove swamp, Seychelles Curieuse Island in September
    BT_Fiddler-crab_25.jpg
  • Fiddler crab (Uca tetragonon) male Photographed in a Mangrove swamp, Seychelles Curieuse Island in September
    BT_Fiddler-crab_23.jpg
  • Fiddler crab (Uca tetragonon) male Photographed in a Mangrove swamp, Seychelles Curieuse Island in September
    BT_Fiddler-crab_22.jpg
  • Fiddler crab (Uca tetragonon) male Photographed in a Mangrove swamp, Seychelles Curieuse Island in September
    BT_Fiddler-crab_21.jpg
  • Fiddler crab (Uca tetragonon) male Photographed in a Mangrove swamp, Seychelles Curieuse Island in September
    BT_Fiddler-crab_19.jpg
  • Selective focus of a purple Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis hybrid)
    IR_f_Hyacinth_E0171.jpg
  • Selective focus of a purple Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis hybrid)
    IR_f_Hyacinth_E0161.jpg
  • Wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi). This is a large and easily identifiable orb weaving spider whose abominable markings give the spider its name. Normally found in warmer parts of mainland Europe, north Africa, Middle East and parts of Asia. Photographed in Israel in April
    SL_20180424_101123.jpg
  • Mealy bugs on a leaf. Cluster of mealy bugs (Pseudococcidae) on the underside of a lemon tree leaf. Photographed in Israel
    IR_Garden_D5524.jpg
  • Echinops adenocaulos, Common Globe thistle. Photographed in Israel
    AMS_f_Nature-057.jpg
  • Echinops adenocaulos, Common Globe thistle. Photographed in Israel
    AMS_f_Nature-054.jpg
  • Echinops adenocaulos, Common Globe thistle. Photographed in Israel
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  • Common Chiffchaff, or simply the Chiffchaff, (Phylloscopus collybita) perched on a pine tree branch. Photographed in Israel in October
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  • Common Chiffchaff, or simply the Chiffchaff, (Phylloscopus collybita) perched on a pine tree branch. Photographed in Israel in October
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  • damaged citrus leaf due to Mealy bugs. Photographed in Israel
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  • Mealy bugs on a leaf. Cluster of mealy bugs (Pseudococcidae) on the underside of a lemon tree leaf. Photographed in Israel
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  • honeydew caused by the secretion of Mealy bugs on a citrus leaf. Photographed in Israel
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  • Mealy bugs on a leaf. Cluster of mealy bugs (Pseudococcidae) on the underside of a lemon tree leaf. Photographed in Israel
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  • Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus) on a coral. These colourful polychaete worms are found in tropical regions throughout the world. They live in tubes attached to coral or rock and extend feathery radioles into the water to trap passing food particles. Photographed in the Red Sea, Eilat, Israel
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  • Beetle in the Columbian rainforest
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  • sheet weaver or sheetweb spider (Linyphiidae). A sheetweb spider clinging to the lower surface of its web. Photographed in Israel in September
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