Nick Upton / Great capricorn / Great oak longhorn beetle (Cerambyx cerdo), one of the largest beetles in Europe, on tree trunk, Lesbos (Lesvos), Greece, June.
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Pascal Tordeux / Cut tree trunk showing shrapnel from World War I in the wood which has caused the sap to diffuse tannin and stain the wood black, Picardy, France, October
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Ross Hoddinott / RF- Speckled bush cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) resting on backlit oak leaf, Bovey Tracey, Devon, UK. August.
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Mark Taylor / English oak tree (Quercus robur) with heavy early snow, Black Heath, Surrey, UK
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Jim Brandenburg / Oak (Quercus sp) trees, Noirmoutier Island, France
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Doug Wechsler / Frost on Black oak tree {Quercus sp.} Yosemite NP, California, USA
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Larry Michael / Black oak leaves in Autumn (Fall) {Quercus velutina}, Wisconsin, USA
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Paul Hobson / Caterpillar larva of Black arches moth (Lymantria monacha) amongst Oak tree flowers, UK
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Konstantin Mikhailov / Manchurian Birch (Betula davurica) with normal black bark in the Manchurian-type Birch / Oak forests of Ussuriland, SE Siberia, Russia