Nick Upton / Spotted longhorn beetle (Rutpela maculata = Strangalia maculata) takes off after feeding on a Common spotted orchid flower (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) in a woodland ride, Lower Woods, Gloucestershire, UK,...

Marie Read / Common mergansers (Mergus merganser) family, female swimming with seventeen ducklings, some of which are riding on her back, Lansing, New York, USA, June.

Marie Read / Eared Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), adult feeds a damselfly nymph to one of two chicks riding on its back, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, USA, June.

Nick Upton / Greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa) flowering in woodland ride, Green Lane Wood, Wiltshire, UK, July.

David Fleetham / Cone shell (Conus sp) gliding across sand at night with two Mysid shrimps (Mysida sp) hitching a ride. Dumaguete, Philippines.

Richard Robinson / Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) ride the bow of a logging ship, Northern New Zealand Editorial use only.

Tim Laman / Orangutan researcher Cheryl Knott and children ride boat down river from Cabang Panti Research Station, Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo. August 2010 Model released.

Georgette Douwma / Commensal emperor shrimp (Periclimenes imperator / Zenopontonia rex) hitching a ride on a Nudibranch (Risbecia tryoni). Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Nick Upton / Trooping funnel / Monk's head mushroom (Clitocybe / Infundibulicybe geotropa), in woodland ride, LWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, November.

Nick Upton / Trooping funnel / Monk's head mushroom (Clitocybe / Infundibulicybe geotropa), in woodland ride, LWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, November.

Marie Read / Eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), adult with two chicks riding on its back, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, USA

Marie Read / Eared grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) adult with chick riding on its back, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, USA. Commended in Bird Photographer of the Year competition 2020.