Nick Upton / Mating pair of Green mountain grasshoppers / Alpine grasshoppers (Miramella alpina) mating, in alpine meadow, with some parasitic mites (Eutrombidium sp.) on the female, Sutjeska Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July.

Jerry Monkman / Barn in a field of tobacco (Nicotiana sp) at dawn, Hadley, Masaschusetts, USA, July 2007

Jerry Monkman / The bare branches of a maple tree in winter silhouetted against a dawn sky on a farm in Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, March 2007

Jerry Monkman / Tobacco plants (Nicotiana sp) grown in the shade of netting, Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, July 2007

Jerry Monkman / Rows of corn seedlings (Zea mays), Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, with The Holyoke Range in the distance. July 2006

Jerry Monkman / Man snowshoeing on the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, Mount Holyoke, Skinner State Park, above the Connecticut River Valley, Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, model released, March 2007

Jerry Monkman / Aerial view of a meander in the Connecticut River, farmland and woodlands, Hadley, nr Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, November 2007

Jerry Monkman / Aerial view of Holyoke Dam and the Connecticut River as it flows through South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, November 2007

Jerry Monkman / Farm worker harvesting tobacco leaves (Nicotiana sp) from plants grown in the shade of netting, Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, July 2007

Jerry Monkman / Farm workers harvesting tobacco leaves (Nicotiana sp) from plants grown in the shade of netting, Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, July 2007

Jerry Monkman / Farm workers harvesting tobacco leaves (Nicotiana sp) from plants grown in the shade of netting, Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, July 2007

Jerry Monkman / The Oxbow and the Connecticut River seen from the Skinner Mountain House in Hadley, with a flock of Grackles filling the sky. Skinner State Park, Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA, August 2007.

Mark Moffett / Researchers Faye Hadley and Stephanie Bohlmen climbing seven-story tall Strangler Fig tree shell, Monteverde, Costa Rica