2018 March Highlights Gallery

Close up portrait of the face of a Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum

Close up portrait of the face of a Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) resting on the sand in shallow water. Its barbels are clearly visible on its top lip. South Bimini, Bahamas. The Bahamas National Shark Sanctuary. Gulf Stream, West Atlantic Ocean

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Animal, Animalia, Barbel, Biodiversity Hotspots, Bizarre, Caribbean, Carpet Shark, Cartilaginous Fish, Catalogue10, Chondrichthyes, Close Up, Ginglymostoma, Ginglymostoma Caboverdianus, Ginglymostoma Cirratum, Ginglymostoma Fulvum, Ginglymostomatidae, Jawed Fish, Marine, Marine Life, Mouth, Nature, Nurse Shark, Nurse Sharks, Orectolobiformes, Sea Life, Sensory Organ, Shark, Squalus Argus, The Caribbean, Tropical, Ugliness, Ugly, Underwater, Vertebrate, Water, Weird, West Indies, Wildlife

Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) sticking its head into the mouth

Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) sticking its head into the mouth of a Red Sea fusilier (Caesio lunaris) during a cleaning session. Small Crack, Sha'ab Mahmud, Sinai, Egypt. Red Sea

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Acanthopteri, Actinopterygii, Africa, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Behaviour, Behavioural, Blue Diesel Wrasse, Blue Fusilier, Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse, Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse, Bluestreak Cleanerfish, Bony Fish, Bridled Beauty, Caesio, Caesio Lunares, Caesio Lunaris, Caesionidae, Catalogue10, Cleaner Wrasse, Cleaner Wrasses, Cleaning, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Cossyphus Dimidiatus, Egypt, Fish, Fusilier, Grooming, Labridae, Labroides, Labroides Caeruleolineatus, Labroides Dimidiatus, Labrus Latovittatus, Lunar Fusilier, Marine, Marine Life, Miispecies, Moon Caesio, Moon Fusilier, Nature, North Africa, Northern Africa, Osteichthyes, Perciformes, Percomorphi, Pterocaesio Lunaris, Ray Finned Fish, Red Sea, Reef, Reefs, Saltwater, Sea, Sea Life, Sinai, Symbiotic Relationship, Tropical, Underwater, Vertebrate, Water, Wildlife, Wrasse, Wrasses

Harebell carpenter bee (Chelostoma campanularum) at 4-5mm long one of Britains smallest bees

Harebell carpenter bee (Chelostoma campanularum) at 4-5mm long one of Britain's smallest bees, visiting Giant harebell (Campanula latifolia) to collect pollen, Pentwyn farm SSSI, Gwent Wildlife Trust, Reserve, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July

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Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Animal, Animalia, Apis Campanularum, Apocrita, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Asterales, Asteranae, Asterid, Bee, Bellflower, Campanula, Campanula Latifolia, Campanula Macrantha, Campanulaceae, Campanule, Catalogue10, Chelostoma, Chelostoma Campanularum, Close Up, Colour, Dicot, Dicotyledon, Drymocodon Latifolium, Europe, Flower, Flowering Plant, Giant Bellflower, Great Britain, Harebell Carpenter Bee, Hexapod, Hexapoda, Hymenoptera, Insect, Insecta, Invertebrate, Leaf Cutting Bee, Magnoliopsida, Megachilidae, Monmouthshire, Plant, Plantae, Pollination, Profile, Protected Area, Purple, Reserve, Seed Plant, Side View, Size, Small, Solitary Bee, Spermatophyte, Spermatophytina, Trachelioides Latifolia, Tracheophyta, Uk, Vascular Plant, Wales, Western Europe, Wildlife, Wildlife Trust Reserve