Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy in Borneo. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m long. Gunung Palung National Pa...

Tim Laman / Botanist amongst the flowers of a Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy in Borneo. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3...

Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy in Borneo. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m long. Gunung Palung National Pa...

Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m long. Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo...

Jouan & Rius / Toadstools growing on a dead tree, rainforest habitat, Costa Rica

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Organ Pipe Cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) with many stalks, spring evening, during drought year, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

Jabruson / Fungal fruiting stalks sprouting from rotting plant stems, they establish themselves before the spread of fungal spores back onto the forest floor. Bai Hokou, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central Afric...

Jabruson / Fungal fruiting stalks sprouting from rotting plant stems, they establish themselves before the spread of fungal spores back onto the forest floor. Bai Hokou, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central Afric...

Mark Carwardine / Giant African land snail (Achatina sp) close up of eye stalks, captive, from tropical forests East africa

Christophe Courteau / Papyrus in permanent swamp. Okavango delta, Botswana, Southern-Africa.

Christophe Courteau / Papyrus in permanent swamp. Okavango delta, Botswana, Southern-Africa.

Barry Mansell / Cave crayfish (Procambarus pallidus) Madison Co., Florida, USA, found in the Florida aquifer, has eye stalks but no functional eye or eye spot

Juergen Freund / Close up of the cirri of a Featherstar (Crinoidea) that holds the featherstar in position on rocky substrate. Batangas, Philippines.

Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy with flowers just starting to open. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m long....

Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy in Borneo. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m long. Gunung Palung National Pa...

Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy in Borneo, with developing flower stalks. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m...

Tim Laman / Mahtab Gazi, a gunin or tiger shaman, upon first landing at each new site for searching for honey, goes on land first and casts a spell on any tigers in the area so that they can not harm the honey hu...

Tim Laman / Mahtab Gazi, a gunin or tiger shaman, upon first landing at each new site for searching for honey, goes on land first and casts a spell on any tigers in the area so that they can not harm the honey hu...

Tim Laman / Mahtab Gazi, a gunin or tiger shaman, upon first landing at each new site for searching for honey, goes on land first and casts a spell on any tigers in the area so that they can not harm the honey hu...

Tim Laman / Mahtab Gazi, a gunin or tiger shaman, upon first landing at each new site for searching for honey, goes on land first and casts a spell on any tigers in the area so that they can not harm the honey hu...

Juergen Freund / Farmer harvesting rice stalks from the fields, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines 2008

Juergen Freund / Children and adults help themselves to free left-over threshed stalks which still contain grains of rice. Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines 2008

Juergen Freund / Freshly harvested rice stalks with grain, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines 2008.

Rob Tilley / Stems of Bamboo in a bamboo forest, Kyoto, Japan

Simon Colmer / Lacewing (Chrysopidae) eggs hanging from tulip petals on protein stalks,

John Waters / Papyrus reed bed {Cyperus papyrus} LOW angle shot, Kenya

Nature Production / Spanner Crab {Ranina ranina} eyes on stalks appearing over sand, Izu, Shizuoka, Japan

Nature Production / Japanese Tree Frog {Hyla japonica} clinging to stalks of oat, Japan

Willem Kolvoort / Landscape with dead vegetation of Common Reed (Phragmites australis} in early spring, algae grows on reed stalks, Lake Naarden, Holland

Willem Kolvoort / Landscape with dead vegetation of Common Reed (Phragmites australis} in early spring, algae grows on reed stalks, Lake Haarden, Holland

Dave Bevan / Harvest mouse (old world) {Micromys minutus} amongst corn stalks, Norfolk, UK.

Mark Raycroft / German Shepherd (Canis familiaris) portrait of adult sitting in snow among corn stalks

Mark Raycroft / Rottweiler (Canis familiaris) adult portrait among dried corn stalks in the fall

Phil Savoie / Stalk eyed fly, Thailand (Cyrtodiopsis whitei)

Mitsuaki Iwago / Grosbeak Weaver (Amblyospiza albifrons) male, building a nest among papyrus stalks in a swamp, St Lucia, Caribbean

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Organ Pipe Cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) with many stalks, spring evening, during drought year, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Organ Pipe Cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) with many stalks, spring evening, during drought year, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

Norbert Wu / Red Reef Hermit (Paguristes cadenati) eyes on stalks, hairs on arms used for sensing food in sand, Caribbean

Mark Moffett / Stalk-eyed Fly (Cyrtodiopsis whitei) has its eyes at the tips of long stalks much like Hammerhead Sharks, Brunei, Borneo

Mark Moffett / Stalk-eyed Fly (Cyrtodiopsis whitei) has its eyes positioned at the end of long stalks much like Hammerhead Sharks, Brunei, Borneo

Norbert Wu / Stareye Hermit (Dardanus venosus) eyes on stalks, hair on arms used for sensing food in sand, Caribbean

Jeff Rotman / Branched stalks of Ostrich feather coral (Xenia sp) polyps opening at night, Red Sea, Egypt

John Cancalosi / Rice fields - burying old stalks prior to replanting, Spain, Europe.

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) seen through bamboo stalks, Wolong Nature Reserve, China

Mark Moffett / Jumping Spider (Portia fimbriata) avoids huge female Giant Wood Spider (Nephila maculata) and stalks tiny male on same web, Queensland, Australia