Morley Read / Brood chambers inside a Termite (Isoptera) nest with workers tending eggs, Napo Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Slow motion. (non-ex)

Jack Dykinga / Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) running to feed brood with Lizard prey in beak. Catalina State Park, Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA. June.

Solvin Zankl / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) feeding larvae in brood cells, Kiel, Germany

Solvin Zankl / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) adult emerging from brood cell, Kiel, Germany

Solvin Zankl / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) adult emerging from brood cell, Kiel, Germany

Solvin Zankl / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) adult emerging from brood cell, Kiel, Germany

Solvin Zankl / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) adult emerging from brood cell, Kiel, Germany

Ingo Arndt / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) adult hatching out of brood cell, Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) opening brood cell before hatching, Germany. Winner of Fritz Polking portfolio prize, GDT 2012 competition.

Sylvain Cordier / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), chick in brood pouch of parent, Snow Hill Island, Antarctic Peninsula

Ernie Janes,Ernie Janes / Newly hatched ducklings with eggs.

Paul D Stewart / Male Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea eutryphon / arion) collected in 1865. It is here surrounded by other extant UK blue butterfly species. The large Blue was first recorded as a British species in 17...