PREMAPHOTOS / Paper wasp {Polistes cinerascens} strips flesh from Assassin bug, Argentina

Philippe Clement / Flesh fly on wall {Sarcophaga carnaria} Belgium

Doug Wechsler / Deer tick biting human flesh {Ixodes scapularis} Pennsylvania, USA

Martin Dohrn / African driver / Siafu / Safari ant biting {Dorylus/ Anomma species). Species is non-stinging, but jaws can tear human flesh. East Africa. Blind

Duncan Mcewan / Flesh fly {Sacrophaga carnaria} UK

Norbert Wu / Map Puffer (Arothron mappa) close-up of eye, eaten as fugu in Japan, flesh is extremely poisonous, Indonesia

Chris Newbert / Small Giant Clam (Tridacna maxima) siphon detail, showing colorful symbiotic photosynthetic algae growing in Giant Clam's flesh, algae produces oxygen while consuming waste ammonia, Solomon Islands

Norbert Wu / Shark fins drying in the sun, used in shark fin soup, sharks are threatened by over fishing to supply high demand for fins and flesh, Baja California, Mexico

Norbert Wu / Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) flesh meat is exposed by market workers using sword-like blades so that buyers may determine quality and fat content, Tsukiji Market, Tokyo, Japan

Norbert Wu / Torafugu (Fugu rubripes) eaten as fugu in Japan, flesh is extremely toxic

Norbert Wu / Oceanic White-tip Shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) hooked on long-line, threatened by overfishing to supply high demand for fins and flesh, Baja California, Mexico

Norbert Wu / Shark flesh is salted and hung to dry in the sun, Baja California, Mexico

Konrad Wothe / Grey Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga carnaria), Germany

Juergen Freund / Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) Caribbean.

Doug Perrine / Tiger shark with discarded plastic cutting into flesh {Galeocerdo cuvieri} Bahamas (Non-ex).

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Rafflesia flower {Rafflesia keithii} Sabah, Borneo - on fourth day of flowering smells of rotting flesh

Toby Roxburgh / Scientists from the Welsh Marine Environmental Monitoring team dissecting the carcass of Sowerby's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon bidens) washed up on a beach near Porthcawl to try to determine cause of dea...

Premaphotos / Deer fly (Chrysops fulvaster) female taking blood from a man's arm, Utah, USA

Premaphotos / Four Flesh flies (Sarcophaga carnaria) and a Noonday fly (Mesembrina meridiana) (top) and on an over-ripe plum, UK

Premaphotos / Flesh fly (Sarcophaga carnaria) on hawthorn berries, UK