Ingo Arndt / Red wood ant (Formica rufa) carrying construction material to anthill (fir needles), Germany.

Diane McAllister / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) biting needles from tree branch while sitting in hot spring in Jigokudani, Japan, January

John Cancalosi / White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) sniffing spruce cone. New York, USA, January.

Jack Dykinga / Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa) pine cone and needles in the snow, South Rim, Grand Canyon NP, Arizona, USA

Claudio Contreras / Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) needles on ice. Sierra de San Pedro Martir National Park, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.

Heather Angel / Spotted nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) feeding on Chinese red pine (Pinus tabuliformis) seeds. Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China.

Sven Zacek / Pattern of Conifer (Pinaceae) needles on snow, revealed following spring melt. Agusalu Nature Reserve, Ida-Virumaa, Eastern Estonia. April.

Steven David Miller / Tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) feeding on Pine needles. Near Flinders Chase National Park, South Australia.

Alex Hyde / Broad-nosed weevil beetle (Entiminae) photographed on a white background in mobile field studio. Manu Biosphere Reserve, Amazonia, Peru. November.

Ashley Cooper / Pines trees killed by the four year long Californian drought in Tehachapi Pass, California, USA. September 2014.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Scots pine tree (Pinus sylvestris) in forest in autumn with snow, Sierra Cebollera Natural Park, La Rioja, Spain, Europe

Adrian Davies / Striated earthstar fungus (Geastrum striatum) under Conifers. Surrey, England, UK. November.