Ingo Arndt / Bark beetle (Scolytinae) galleries in dead spruce tree (Picea abies), Bayerischer Wald / Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany., June.

Orsolya Haarberg / Snow covered Norway spruce (Picea abies) trees at the treeline, Stubba Nature Reserve, Laponia, Sweden, February 2013.

Orsolya Haarberg / Snow covered Norway spruce (Picea abies) forest on Mount Harghita Madaras, Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania, Romania, January 2015.

Orsolya Haarberg / Norway spruce (Picea abies) trees covered in snow, Ciuc Mountains, Transylvania, Romania, January 2015.

Erlend Haarberg / Norway spruce trees (Picea abies) covered in snow and frost, at sunrise, Mellan-Stubba, Stubba Nature Reserve, Lapland, Sweden, February 2013.

Andy Trowbridge / Great Tit (Parus major) perched on frost covered spruce branch with wings open in a show of aggression. Southern Norway, October.

Erlend Haarberg / Norway spruce (Picea abies) forest covered by packed snow, Riisitunturi National Park, Finland, February 2006

Erlend Haarberg / Mist over a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) / Norway spruce (Picea abies) forest at sunrise, near Yli-Kitka lake and Tolva village, Finland, July 2006

Sven Zacek / Spruce trees covered in snow (Picea abies) Winter, Estonia

Wild Wonders of Europe / D'Amicis / Old Norway spruce (Picea abies) tree with Butterbur (Petasites albus) growing beneath it, Western Tatras, Carpathian Mountains, Slovakia, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Ruiz / Norway spruce (Picea abies) cone on moss, Brtnicky Hradek, Ceske Svycarsko / Bohemian Switzerland National Park, Czech Republic, September 2008 WWE OUTDOOR EXHIBITION

Wild Wonders of Europe / Biancarelli / Corkova Uvala, virgin forest with Silver fir (Abies alba) Spruce (Picea abies) and European beeches (Fagus sylvatica) in autumn, Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia, October 2008