Konrad Wothe / Slow motion clip of Beautiful demoiselles (Calopteryx virgo) mating on Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), Bavaria, Germany, July.

Konrad Wothe / Slow motion clip of a pair of Beautiful demoiselles (Calopteryx virgo) mating on Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), Bavaria, Germany, July.

Matthias Breiter / Rose Spiraea (Spiraea douglasii) flowering, Canada

Matthias Breiter / Rose Spiraea (Spiraea douglasii) flower, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

Nick Upton / Brown witch's butter (Tremella foliacea) parasitizing Hairy curtain crust (Stereum hirsutum) on Birch (Betula sp.) log, Arne RSPB Nature Reserve, Dorset, UK, November.

Adrian Davies / Hairy curtain crust fungus (Stereum hirsutum) growing on Beech tree (Fagus sp.), Surrey, UK. December.

Robert Thompson / False turkey tail fungus (Stereum hirsutum) growing on tree branch, Crom Castle Estate, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK. October.

Will Watson / Hairy curtain crust / Hairy sterum (Stereum hirsutum) on branch of snow-covered Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur), ancient woodland, Herefordshire Plateau, England, UK. January, 2021.

Nick Upton / Hairy curtain crust / Hairy stereum (Stereum hirsutum) bracket fungi growing from a moss-covered log, GWT Lower Woods reserve, Gloucestershire, UK, October.

Linda Pitkin / Hairy curtain crust fungus (Stereum hirsutum), Naphill Common (SSSI), Buckinghamshire, England, September.