Morley Read / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves and pieces of yellow flowers along a branch, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves and pieces of yellow flowers along a branch, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves and pieces of yellow flowers along a branch, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Column of Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves over the rainforest floor to their nest, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of Army ants (Eciton rapax) on the rainforest floor, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Leaf cutter ant (Atta) carrying a leaf along a branch, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Leaf cutter ant (Atta) carrying a leaf along a branch, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Morley Read / Slow motion clip of Leafcutter ants (Atta) carrying pieces of leaves back to their nest, Amazon rainforest, Napo Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Phil Savoie / Yellow legged mining bee (Andrena flavipes) female at nest burrow, River Monnow, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, April.

Phil Savoie / Painted nomad bee (Nomada fucata) male bee with characteristic green eyes, sleeping with jaws locked around grass stem, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June

Phil Savoie / Grey patched mining bee (Andrena nitida),male feeding rambling rose flower (Rosa sp) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. April

Phil Savoie / Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida) feeding on Dandelion (Taraxacum offinicale) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. April