Andrew Walmsley / Silver eye / Grey backed white eye (Zosterops lateralis) in flowering Pohutukawa tree (Metrosideros excelsa) Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand, December
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Stephen Dalton / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) filling honey storage cells in the hive, UK
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Nigel Bean / Meadow Wax Cap {Hygrocybe pratensis} in grassland, Ashton Court, Bristol, UK.
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Doug Perrine / Spermaceti candles made from Sperm whale wax, Whaler's village museum, Hawaii
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Ingo Arndt / Atlas moth caterpillar with wax coating for protection from parasites {Attacus atlas} Malaysia
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Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Flock of Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus) flying over a hedge with Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster integerrimus) berries, Whitstable, Kent, England, UK, January. Did you know? Waxwings are so called for the re...
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Roland Seitre / Gonzalo Cardona Molina, coordinator of the Andean Parrot Project, in wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense) highlands of Tolima. Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Yellow-eared Parrots (Ognorhynchus icterotis) at their nest hole in wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense). Endangered. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Yellow-eared Parrots (Ognorhynchus icterotis) taking flight from broken wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense). Endangered. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Yellow-eared Parrots (Ognorhynchus icterotis) grooming on broken wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense). Endangered. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Yellow-eared Parrots (Ognorhynchus icterotis) perched on broken wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense). Endangered. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Gonzalo Cardona Molina, coordinator of the Andean Parrot Project, observing yellow-eared parrots in wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense)s. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Yellow-eared Parrots (Ognorhynchus icterotis) perched on broken wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense). Endangered. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Quindio Wax Palms (Ceroxylon quindiuense) in high forested landscape - habitat and breeding areas of the yellow-eared parrot. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Quindio Wax Palms (Ceroxylon quindiuense) in high forested landscape - habitat and breeding areas of the yellow-eared parrot. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Quindio Wax Palms (Ceroxylon quindiuense) in high forested landscape - habitat and breeding areas of the Yellow-eared parrot. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Gonzalo Cardona Molina, coordinator of the Andean Parrot Project, in wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense) highlands of Tolima. Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Quindio Wax Palms (Ceroxylon quindiuense) in high forested landscape - habitat and breeding areas of the yellow-eared parrot. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Roland Seitre / Quindio Wax Palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense), typical trees for yellow-eared parrots to breed in. Tolima, Colombia, 2010.
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Piotr Naskrecki / Fulgorid Planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis) with wax that easily breaks off to allow it to escape when attacked, Sipaliwini, Surinam
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Simon Colmer / Honey bee wax gland (Apis mellifera) Sussex, UK
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Pete Oxford / Huaorani man making a feather crown. The crowns are made from a split vine and feathers from various birds such as toucans, parrots and macaws are glued on with heated bees wax. Gabaro Community, Yasu...
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Pete Oxford / Huaorani man making a feather crown. The crowns are made from a split vine and feathers from various birds such as toucans, parrots and macaws are glued on with heated bees wax. Gabaro Community, Yasu...
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Pete Oxford / Huaorani man making a feather crown. The crowns are made from a split vine and feathers from various birds such as toucans, parrots and macaws are glued on with heated bees wax. Gabaro Community, Yasu...
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Mark Moffett / Bee (Tetragonisca angustula) exiting wax nest entrance, Santa Rita, Panama
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Chien Lee / Indonesian Wax Ginger (Tapeinochilos ananassae) flowering, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia
Gary K. Smith / Fruit Propagation 'whip & tongue grafting' gardener grafting Apple (Malus sylvestris) onto M26 grafting stock, applying hot grafting wax to rootstock and attached scion, Sequence 7/7, UK, April
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Gary K. Smith / Fruit Propagation 'whip & tongue grafting' gardener grafting Apple (Malus sylvestris) onto M26 grafting stock, applying hot grafting wax to rootstock and attached scion, Sequence 6/7, UK, April
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Murray Cooper / Andean Wax Palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense) fruiting, Colombia
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Gary K. Smith / Chillies, 'Hungarian wax yellow' drying on garden sieve on the potting shed bench, UK, September.
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Robert Thompson / Wax cap fungus {Hygrocybe persistens} Streedagh Dunes, County Silgo, Republic of Ireland, August
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Robert Thompson / Wax cap fungus {Hygrocybe conica var conicoides} Streedagh Dunes, County Silgo, Republic of Ireland, August
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Robert Thompson / Wax cap fungus {Hygrocybe persistens} Streedagh Dunes, County Silgo, Republic of Ireland, August
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Robert Thompson / Wax cap fungus {Hygrocybe conica} Streedagh Dunes, County Silgo, Republic of Ireland, August
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Robert Thompson / Wax cap fungus {Hygrocybe conica var conicoides} Streedagh Dunes, County Silgo, Republic of Ireland, August
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Martin Gabriel / Sealing wax palm trees (Cyrtostachys renda) native to Malaysia, growing on Tortuga Beach, Costa Rica
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Martin Gabriel / Sealing wax palm (Cyrtostachys renda) stem detail, native to Malaysia, growing on Tortuga Beach, Costa Rica
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James Christensen / Fulgorid Planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis) pair feeding on sap, showing plumes of excreted white wax, Colon, Panama
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James Christensen / Fulgorid Planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis) feeding on sap, showing plumes of excreted white wax, Colon, Panama
Michael & Patricia Fogden / Darkling Beetle (Eucomaria sp) in defensive posture, note yellow wax deposit for heat regulation, Namib Desert, Namibia
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George McCarthy / Meadow wax cap fungus {Hygrocybe pratensis} UK
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) honeycomb cells filled with honey and covered by wax, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany
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PREMAPHOTOS / Whitefly nymphs (Aleyrodidae) protected by the long filaments of wax they produce, in rainforest, Queensland, Australia
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Duncan Mcewan / Hygrocybe miniata toadstools in Sphagnum mound, Scotland