Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb-weaver (Micrathena sp.) weaving a silk nest to protect its eggs, the nest is suspended from a thread to isolate it from predators, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador. Filmed at...

Nick Upton / Female House spider (Tegenaria sp.) at the mouth of her tubular silk retreat in an old stone wall, Somerset, UK, September.

David Perpinan / Slow motion clip of a Wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi) wrapping a grasshopper in silk, Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, August.

Michael Hutchinson / Money spider (Tenuiphantes sp) tiptoeing behaviour on daisy. Spiders can stand on tiptoes and produced silk to 'balloon' and travel with the airflow. In this image the silk dragline and feinte...

James Dunbar / Male Garden spider (Araneus) attaching silk to prey, England, UK, September.

Alex Hyde / Sheetweb weaving spider (Linyphiidae) in web at sunset. The silk is refracting the light into a rainbow of coloured bands. Slovenia, July.

Jiri Lochman / Bolas spider (Dicrostichus furcatus / Ordgarius furcatus) female with bolas, a blob of silk at end of line used to swing at prey, only used by females. Bolas spiders also produce pheromones of specifi...

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Dew covered spider's web with pink flowering heather in the background, Arne RSPB reserve, Dorset, England, UK, August. Did you know? Spiders silk is one of the strongest materials in nature, equallin...

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Female Garden spider (Araneus diadematus) wrapping up fly prey with silk on web spun in garden, with house in the background, Wiltshire England, UK, September . Property released.

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Spider's web covered in dew, Westhay SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, England, UK, June. Photographer quote 'Always an appealing subject, but only on rare occassions is the air still enough to allow clos...

Kim Taylor / Jumping Spider (Marpissa mucosa) female leaping from acorn to acorn, using silk as a safety line. Surrey, UK, September.

Alex Hyde / Close-up of the extendable silk net of the Ogre faced / Net-casting spider {Deinopis sp}, Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Blue-throated Hummingbird (Lampornis clemenciae) male feeding on flowering Claret Cup Cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus) Chisos Basin, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Chihuahuan Desert, W...

Jack Dykinga / The Chimneys and Pona Mountain with ridges of the Santa Elena Canyon complex in the background, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA

Jack Dykinga / Silhouette of Mexican Pinyon pine tree on the Chisos Mountain ridge in fog, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA

Jack Dykinga / Aerial view of Rio Grande passing through the Boquillas Canyon with the Chisos Mountains and Big Bend National Park in the background, Texas, USA on right of river, Mexico on left of river.

Jack Dykinga / Soaptree Yuccas (Yucca elata) in flower amid Big Bend Bluebonnet (Lupinus harvardii), dawn, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Tim Fitzharris / Opuntia (Opuntia sp) in Chihuahuan Desert landscape, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Tim Fitzharris / Agave (Agave sp) plants and Chisos Mountains seen from Chisos Basin, Big Bend National Park, Chihuahuan Desert, Texas

Rolf Nussbaumer / Sunset, The Window, Chisos basin, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Desert marigold flowers {Baileya multiradiata} Big Bend NP. Texas, USA.

Tim Fitzharris / Sierra Ponce and Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Jack Dykinga / Agave (Agave havardiana) and Sotol (Dasylirion texanum) growing in Chihuahuan Desert, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA, March.

Jack Dykinga / Dawn light on Santa Elena Canyon with Rio Grande River, Big Bend National Park, Chihuahuan Desert, Texas, USA, February.