Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) parent carrying chicks, Piedmont, Italy

Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair feeding chick, Piedmont, Italy

Robert Thompson / Tau emperor moth (Aglia tau) early instar caterpillar camouflaged against leaf. Falmenta, Cannobina Valley near Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. May.

Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) at floating nest, Piedmont, Italy

Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) chick swallowing fish, Piedmont, Italy

Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) parent carrying chicks, Piedmont, Italy

Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) parent carrying chicks, Piedmont, Italy

Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) on floating nest, Piedmont, Italy

Clay Bolt / Common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens), Piedmont Prairie habitat, Clemson, South Carolina, USA, July.

MYN / ACREMAR / Butterfly chrysalis (Lepidoptera) Molare, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Thomas Marent / Piedmont Ringlet (Erebia meolans) butterfly, Alps, Switzerland

Kristel Richard / Six Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, race bareback in the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys gallop at full speed to win...