Nigel Cattlin / Immature caterpillar of a codling moth (Cydia pomonell) eating its way through a gallery in a ripening apple fruit, Berkshire, July

Konrad Wothe / Male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Kristel Richard / Two cowboys mounted on a Pantaneiro stallion, round up a band of wild Pantaneiro horses, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. August 2015.

Kristel Richard / Band of wild Mongolian horses running on plains at the foot of Dungurukh Uul mountain, near the border with China and Kazakhstan, Bayan-Olgiy aymag, Mongolia. September.

Kristel Richard / Cowboys rounding up a band of Criollo pure pedigree mares and foals, Estancia Ita Maria, Misiones, Paraguay, January 2012

Kristel Richard / A band of semi-feral Quarter mares and foals running across a creek, Estancia Don Amerigo, Chaco, Paraguay, January 2012

Kristel Richard / A wild Misaki-uma breeding stallion (right) brings back one of his mares to his band while another breeding stallion (left) charges him away, in the Cape Toi Reserve, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Islan...

Kristel Richard / A Sika deer stag rests among a band of wild Misaki-uma horses (Equus ferus caballus) in the Cape Toi Reserve, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan.

Mark Bowler / Belcher's / Peruvian band-tailed gull (Larus belcheri) calling, Paracas National Reserve, Peru

Carol Walker / Wild horses / Mustangs, band with dun filly drinking in waterhole, Pryor Mountains, Montana, USA

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Mustang (Equus caballus) family band grazing under evening sky, Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, Montana

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Band-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes ruckeri) hummingbird, male feeding and pollinating Heliconia (Heliconia pogonantha) flowers, rainforests, Costa Rica

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Mustang (Equus caballus) family band running together in desert, Fifteen Mile Herd Management Area, central Wyoming

Pete Oxford / Chagra cowboy portrait with roses in his hat band, on an overnight ride at a hacienda to herd cattle, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Morley Read / Time-lapse of a band of cumulus clouds forming over the Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Time-lapse of a band of cumulus clouds forming over the Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, 2017. (non-ex)

JIM CLARE / Peruvian band-tailed gull, (Larus belcheri) chicks. Punta San Juan, (Reserva Nacional de Islas, Islotes y Puntas Guaneras) Peru.

JIM CLARE / Peruvian band-tailed gull, (Larus belcheri) chicks. Punta San Juan, (Reserva Nacional de Islas, Islotes y Puntas Guaneras) Peru.

Oscar Dewhurst / Emperor Tamarin (Saguinus imperator) in a rainforest clearing. The animal is one of many being studied, hence the metal band hanging from its neck. Madre de Dios, Peru. March. Cropped

Heather Angel / Elephant yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) in UV light, lower band with female flowers, male flowers above.

Heather Angel / Elephant yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) spathe with band of male flowers above and female flowers below. In cultivation.

Heather Angel / Gold band lily (Lilium auratum) flower. Yellow nectar guides lead pollinators to nectaries. Pollinators are swallowtail butterflies and hawkmoths. Cultivated in garden, Surrey, England, UK. Native to...

Heather Angel / Gold band lily (Lilium auratum) with yellow nectar guides. In cultivation. Native to Japan.

Heather Angel / Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) flower with orange band to attract bees, produces copious nectar. In visible light. Surrey, England, UK. Native to USA. Focus stacked. Sequence 1/2.

Francisco Marquez / Close up of the tag on a Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juvenile's leg, held by a volunteer, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Francisco Marquez / Close up of the tag on a Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juvenile's leg during measuring, held by a volunteer, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Francisco Marquez / Close up of a tag on a Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juvenile's leg being loosened, held by a volunteer, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Francisco Marquez / Bird bands used for Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juveniles, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Francisco Marquez / Volunteers looking at bird bands used for Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juveniles, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Marie Read / Great crested flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus), female alighting at nest cavity entrance carrying pine needles as nest material, wide angle captured with remote camera to show habitat, New York, USA. M...

David Fleetham / Whitebar surgeonfish (Acanthurus leucopareius) school in underwater cave, oxygenated water brought down by Pacific ocean surge. Kona, The Big Island, Hawaii.

Felis Images / Proton Arc - a rare red band of light in the aurora, with an oil pump. Alberta, Canada, March 2017.

Graham Eaton / A PDC (polycrystalline diamond compact) type oil field drill bit on one othe Kimmeridge ledges. Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, UK, March. The ledges are hard Jurassic age, carbonate rich horizons of Limetone...

Graham Eaton / Conjugate kink bands in Carboniferous turbidite shales, Bude, Cornwall, UK, May

Graham Eaton / Crenulation cleavage developed in Pre-Cambrian age, metamorphic, Chlorite Schist. Llyn, Wales, UK, May

Kristel Richard / Band of rare semi-wild Hmong horses running in dry rice field, Xieng Khuang, Laos.

Sylvain Cordier / Common Chiffchaff, or Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) bird ringing, Ile Erstein, Alsace, France.

Cyril Ruoso / Feral Horse (Equus caballus) band, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia.

Georgette Douwma / Goldband fusilier (Pterocaesio chrysozona), Red Sea, Egypt. January.

Eric Medard / Pair of Tufted ducks (Athya fuligula) on lake, male with an identification beak band, Mayenne, France, March.

Tim Zurowski/ BIA / Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata), North America

Tim Zurowski/ BIA / Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata), British Columbia, Canada

Tim Zurowski/ BIA / Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata), British Columbia, Canada

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma) resting on Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) flower, Vaucluse, France, May.

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted Fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma) resting on Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) flower, Vaucluse, France, May.

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma) on flower, Prealpes d'Azur Regional Natural Park, France, June.

Lorraine Bennery / A special coloring of Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma), Alpes-Maritimes, France, June.

Lorraine Bennery / Caterpillar larva of Meadow / Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma), Alpes-Maritimes, France, June.

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma) chrysalis, Vercors Regional Natural Park, France, June.

Kristel Richard / Band of wild Rapa Nui horses/colts, walking near Easter island heads on Ahu Tongariki , Rapa Nui National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site, Easter Island / Rapa Nui, Chile.

Kristel Richard / Band of wild Rapa Nui horses/mares and a colt, walking near Rapa Nui National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site, Easter Island Heads, Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ea...

Jeff Rotman / Lobster fisherman puts rubber band on claws to prevent cannabalism. Portland, Maine, USA, December 2016. Model released.

Kim Taylor / Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma) on Horehound (Marrubium peregrinum) Bulgaria, July.

Kim Taylor / Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma) Bulgaria, July.

Konrad Wothe / Showreel of various wildlife in a rainforest, including Brilliant-thighed poison-arrow frog (Allobates femoralis), Army ants (Eciton burcellii), Nauta salamander (Bolitoglossa altamazonica), Band-tail...

Konrad Wothe / Two male Band-tailed manakins (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, taking off from and landing on a branch, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Juvenile male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, before being chased off by an adult, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Juvenile male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Juvenile male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Juvenile male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Juvenile male Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda saturata) displaying, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco Province, Peru.

Nick Hawkins / Researcher placing a leg band on Chestnut-sided warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica), captured in a mist net during a study of migratory birds in Costa Rica, January.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Quartzite band in bedrock in mountains at sunrise with view to loch, Lochaber, Scotland, UK, October 2016.

Edwin Giesbers / Spotted fritillary (Melitaea didyma) Aosta Valley, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Spotted fritillary caterpillar (Melitaea didyma) Sibillini, Italy, June.

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted fritillary butterflies (Melitaea didyma) male approaching female, Luberon Regional Natural Park, France, June.

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma) chrysalis, Alpes-Maritimes, France, June.

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted fritillary butterflies (Melitaea didyma) male approaching female, Luberon Regional Natural Park, France, June.

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted fritillary butterfly (Melitaea didyma), Coussouls de Crau National Natural Reserve, Bouches du Rhone, France, May.

Lorraine Bennery / Spotted fritillary's caterpillar (Melitaea didyma) parasitized by a solitary wasp, La Brenne Regional Natural Park, Indre, France, June.

Alex Mustard / Nudibranch (Chromodoris magnifica) high magnification detail of a marginal band, Anilao, Batangas, Luzon, Philippines, Pacific Ocean.

Alex Mustard / Nudibranch (Hypselodoris apolegma) high magnification detail of a marginal band, Anilao, Batangas, Luzon, Philippines, Pacific Ocean.

Nick Garbutt / Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops). Pousada Aguape Lodge, Moto Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. September.

Carol Walker / Wild grey Mustang mare drinking with sorrel foal at her side with pinto band stallion behind in Sand Wash Basin, Colorado, USA. May 2013.

Carol Walker / Two wild Mustang stallions, a sorrel bachelor and a grey band face off in the Adobe Town Herd Area, Wyoming, USA. June 2013.

Chris Mattison / Canarian band-winged grasshopper (Oedipoda canariensis) camouflaged on lava, Punta de Teno, Tenerife, Canary Islands, March

Cyril Ruoso / Band-tailed gull (Larus belcheri) in Nazca coastal desert in Paracas National Reserve, Peru

Cyril Ruoso / Band-tailed gull (Larus belcheri) defending nest against Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) Punta San Juan, Peru

Cyril Ruoso / Band-tailed gull (Larus belcheri) pair mating on beach, Punta San Juan, Peru

Cyril Ruoso / Band-tailed gull (Larus belcheri) pair mating on beach, Punta San Juan, Peru

Cyril Ruoso / Band-tailed gull (Larus belcheri) with Cormorant egg in beak, guano island of Pescadores, Peru

Cyril Ruoso / Band-tailed gull (Larus belcheri) flying over sea with crab in beack, Nazca coastal desert, Peru

Andy Sands / Horse fly (Tabanus bromius) resting on old wooden bench, Surrey, England, UK, June

Andy Sands / Horse fly (Tabanus bromius) on old dead log, Surrey, England, UK, June

Pascal Pittorino / Band-eyed frone fly (Eristalinus taeniops) feeding on Euryops flower (Euryops pectinatus) in a garden. Provence, France, November

Pascal Pittorino / Band-eyed Drone fly (Eristalinus taeniops) feeding on Euryops flower (Euryops pectinatus) in a garden. Provence, France, November

Pascal Pittorino / Band-eyed Drone fly (Eristalinus taeniops) feeding on Euryops flower (Euryops pectinatus) in a garden. Provence, France, November

Nick Upton / Band-eyed brown horsefly (Tabanus bromius) resting on a fence, Wiltshire, UK, June.

Kristel Richard / Cowboy mounted on a Pantaneiro stallion, rounding up a band of wild Pantaneiro horses, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. August 2015.

Kristel Richard / Cowboy mounted on a Pantaneiro stallion, rounds up a band of wild Pantaneiro horses, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Kristel Richard / Band of wild Pantaneiro horses gallops on the vast plains, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. August.

Kristel Richard / Two cowboys mounted on Pantaneiro stallion, round up a band of wild Pantaneiro horses in water, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. August 2015.