Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Piling with sponges, tunicates, and ascidians, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

Bruno D'Amicis / Common mulleins (Verbascum thapsus), Poppies (Papaver rhoeas), and Daisies flowering in mountain pasture. Gran Sasso National Park, Central Apennines, Abruzzo, Italy, June.

Alex Hyde / Green Dock Beetle (Gastrophysa viridula) female with huge abdomen swollen with eggs. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. May.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Stevedore or dock worker smoking cigarette and carrying cargo on head to and from the boats, Sadarghat water front, Dhaka, Bangladesh June 2012. No release available.

Colin Monteath / Dock in Lake Mapourika with mist rising off water, Westland National Park, New Zealand

Juergen Freund / Dock worker carrying tuna from a fishing vessel to the fish landing and processing area, Sarangani, Philippines, April 2010.

Juergen Freund / Dock worker carrying Yellowfin tuna ashore for weighing, Jacana tuna fish landing, Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, April 2009

Juergen Freund / Dock worker carries tuna to the fish landing and processing area of the Docks, Sarangani, Philippines, April 2010 . . NOT AVAILABLE FOR MAGAZINE USE IN GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES UNTIL 1ST JULY 2013.

Juergen Freund / Dock worker carries tuna through the fish landing and processing area, Sarangani, Philippines, April 2010 . NOT AVAILABLE FOR MAGAZINE USE IN GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES UNTIL 1ST JULY 2013.

Andy Sands / Ichneumon wasp (Rhyssa persuasoria) one of the largest British wasps, at rest on Dock leaf, UK, Captive

Alan Williams / Male Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) feeding on Dock (Rumex) seeds, Yorkshire, UK, January

Ross Hoddinott / Large Red damselfly {Pyrrhosoma nymphula}, Tamar lakes, Cornwall. UK