Jack Dykinga / Scalding hot water continuously spouting behind layers of mineral deposits, Fly Geyser, Black Rock Desert, Great Basin Desert, Nevada, USA

Alex Hyde / Horsefly (Philipomyia aprica) Aosta Valley, Monte Rosa Massif, Pennine Alps, Italy. July.

Bert Willaert / Hunter and his dog waiting for raptors to fly over, Georgia, September 2011. No release available.

Andy Trowbridge / Underwater view of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) being released by a fly fisherman in a small spring fed stream, North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. December, 2011.

Andy Trowbridge / Split level shot of a fly fisherman (Murray Trowbridge) releasing a large brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a gin clear 'backcountry' river, North Canterbury South Island, New Zealand. January, 2012. Mode...

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / A Long-legged fly (Neurigona quadrifasciata) rarely recorded in the UK, found during Bioblitz survey at Abbots Pool and woodland reserve, silhouetted against an Ivy leaf (Hedera helix), Bristol, UK, J...

Jack Dykinga / Scalding hot water continuously spouting behind layers of mineral deposits, Fly Geyser, Black Rock Desert, Great Basin Desert, Nevada, USA

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Canada geese (Branta canadensis) grazing in snow, Reddish Vale, Manchester, England, UK, March. Did you know? Canada geese can fly up to 1500 miles in just 24 hours if the wind is favourable.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Eider (Somateria mollissima) male in flight in evening light, Aberdeenshire , Scotland, UK

John Beatty / 2020VISION / Helicopter dropping load onto moorland.

Shaun Robertson / 2020VISION / Angler casting into the River Teviot, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK. Model Released. 2020VISION Exhibition. 2020Vision Book Plate.

Rob Jordan / 2020VISION / Family fishing from the bank of the River Tweed at Junction Pool, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK, October 2011. 2020VISION Exhibition. 2020VISION Book Plate. Did you know? The most popular UK spor...

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Hoverfly (Syrphus ribesii) feeding on Common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) flower, Arne RSPB reserve, Dorset, England, UK, August

Andy Sands / Robberfly (Machimus cingulatus) head close up showing large compound eyes. Captive, UK, July.

Mike Read / Cranes (Grus grus), imprinted from hatching to fly with a microlight. Hampshire County Show near Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, July 2008.

Solvin Zankl / Wild Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria [focus stacking]

Solvin Zankl / Laboratory culture of Wild type Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria

Solvin Zankl / Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) laboratory culture Curly (wings turn up) mutant, the mutations are used as genetic markers in gene research, Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Mol...

Solvin Zankl / Wild Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria [focus staking]

Solvin Zankl / Research scientist Dr. Anne von Philipsborn sorting a laboratory culture of Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) at the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austri...

Solvin Zankl / Sorting Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) laboratory culture embryos for DNA injection at the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria.

Solvin Zankl / Wild Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria [focus stacking]

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Female Garden spider (Araneus diadematus) wrapping up fly prey with silk on web spun in garden, with house in the background, Wiltshire England, UK, September . Property released.

MYN / Piotr Naskrecki / Long legged fly (Condylostylus sp) portrait, Concord, Massachusetts, USA, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

Robert Thompson / Cleg fly (Haematopa pulvialis) adult at rest on bog myrtle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, July

Stephen Dalton / Caddisfly (Trichoptera) larva with a carapace it has constructed from bits of vegetation. Sussex, UK, March.

Ernie Janes / Northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) with fly on rim

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Four-spotted chaser dragonfly (Libellula quadrimaculata), Westhay SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, England, UK, June. Did you know? Dragonflies can fly backwards.

David Maitland / Close-up view of the upward-looking giant dorsal compound eyes of the St Marks fly (Bibio marci) used to detect female flies flying above. Like many insects the eyes are "hairy". Feltwell, Norfolk, UK...

David Maitland / Close-up view of the upward-looking giant dorsal compound eyes of the St Marks fly (Bibio marci) used to detect female flies flying above. Like many insects the eyes are "hairy". Feltwell, Norfolk, UK...

David Maitland / Head of female St. Marks fly (Bibio marci) showing normal sized compound eyes. Feltwell, Norfolk, UK

David Maitland / Head of female St. Marks fly (Bibio marci) showing normal sized compound eyes. Feltwell, Norfolk, UK

Simon Colmer / Blue bottle fly (Calliphora vicina) lying upside down, dead, on white background, Sussex, UK

Andy Rouse / Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) walking through a river with caught salmon against a mountainous landscape as two gulls fly past. Katmai, Alaska, USA, August.

John Waters / Hand-reared Whooper Swans (Cygnus cygnus) being trained to fly alongside a car at Weson airfield by Lloyd and Rose Buck for filming purposes. Somerset, UK, January 2011.

John Waters / Illegally discarded rubbish and scrap metal close to the village of Westhay, Somerset, UK. January 2011.

Kim Taylor / Volucella Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens) feeding on Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) flowers. Surrey, UK, June.

Kim Taylor / Drone / Hover Fly (Eristalis tenax) female against a white background. Surrey, UK, May.

Ben Hall / 2020VISION / Fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria) in woodland setting, The National Forest, Central England, UK, November 2010

Nick Upton / Hoverfly (Myathropa florea), using proboscis to feed on pollen from anthers of Ivy flowers (Hedera helix). Wiltshire garden, UK, September

Alex Hyde / Cleg fly / Horsefly (Haematopota pluvialis) sucking blood from human.

Orsolya Haarberg / Moor-king (Pedicularis sceptrum-carolinum) flower, Vardo, Finnmark, Norway

John Cancalosi / Fossil Fly (species unknown) from the Early Cretaceous Period. Santana Formation, Brazil

Laurent Geslin / Common bee fly (Bombylius major) on bark in urban park, Paris, France

Nick Upton / Pair of Flesh Flies (Sarcophaga sp.) mating, Wiltshire pastureland, UK, May.

Alex Hyde / Close-up of compound eyes of unidentified fly {Diptera}. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.

Laurent Geslin / Common bee fly (Bombylius major) at rest with graffiti in the background, Paris, France.

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Flock of juvenile Common / Eurasian cranes (Grus grus) recently released by the Great Crane Project onto the Somerset Levels and Moors, fly over grazing cattle. Somerset, UK, October 2010.

Lisa Hoffner / Wild Cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) appears to fly through the air as it jumps from branch to branch in the dry tropical forest of Colombia, South America. IUCN List: Critically Endangered

Aflo / ic-09606 Whooper swans flying and on water {Cygnus cygnus} Hokkaido, Japan.

Stephen Dalton / Common housefly (Musca domestica) multiflash sequence of two images showing fly landing on ceiling, touching down on front feet and cart-wheeling down on remaining two pairs of feet.

Stephen Dalton / Muscid fly (Muscidae) on glass, viewed from under the glass showing feet, UK, controlled conditions

Stephen Dalton / Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) with fly trapped

Wild Wonders of Europe / Geslin / Yellow-legged moustached icon hoverfly (Syrphus ribesii) resting on leaf in the Vatican garden with St Peter's in the background, Rome, Italy, March 2010

Nick Upton / Cleg fly / Horsefly (Haematopa pluvialis) sucking blood from photographer's arm, Wiltshire pastureland, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Flesh fly (Sarcophaga sp.) "bubbling" regurgitated stomach contents in order to increase the concentration of its food by evaporating excessive water content. Wiltshire, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Flesh fly (Sarcophaga sp.) "bubbling" regurgitated stomach contents in order to increase the concentration of its food by evaporating excessive water content. Wiltshire, UK, September.

Stephen Dalton / Hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) taking off from Snapdragon flower, UK

Stephen Dalton / Swarm of Dance flies (Hilara maura) courtship behaviour over water, UK

John Downer / Barnacle geese {Branta leucopsis} in flight, imprinted geese trained to fly beside car, captive, UK

Stephen Dalton / European chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) catching a fly, controlled conditions

Stephen Dalton / Jumping spider (Plexippus paykulli) leaping onto fly prey, Crete

Stephen Dalton / Drone fly (Eristalis similis) in flight over summer bedding flowers, England, UK

Stephen Dalton / Dronefly (Eristalis similis) taking off from Snapdragon (Antirrhinum) flower, UK

Stephen Dalton / Hoverfly (Volucella bombylans) feeding on flower. This species is a Bumblebee mimic, UK

Stephen Dalton / Hoverfly (Syrphus ribesii) feeding on (Cynara sp) flower, UK.

Solvin Zankl / Male Long-tailed / Tisza mayfly (Palingania longicauda) concludes its last moult. By starting to fly hard towards the river the mayfly pulls its long caudal tails out of the old skin which will be lef...

Solvin Zankl / Male Long-tailed / Tisza mayfly (Palingania longicauda) undergoing moult, River Tisza, Hungary, Central Europe. June The old skin opens at the back of the animal and will be left behind on the leaf l...

Gerrit Vyn / Molting Brant (Branta bernicla) being held in an enclosure during a banding operation in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area. During their moult they are unable to fly. Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA

Gerrit Vyn / Molting Brant (Branta bernicla) being held in an enclosure during a banding operation in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area. During their moult they are unable to fly. Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA

Wild Wonders of Europe / Geslin / Yellow-legged moustached icon hoverfly (Syrphus ribesii) on leaf in garden of Vatican City, Rome, Italy, March 2010

Stephen Dalton / Hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) flying into spider's web, UK

Stephen Dalton / Common house fly {Musca domestica} killed by fly-zapping machine, attracted to the ultra violet light, UK

Michel Poinsignon / Looking down on a large group of Fly agaric fungi caps {Amanita muscaria} Lorraine, France

Michel Poinsignon / Group of Fly agaric fungi {Amanita muscaria} in woodland, Lorraine, France

Wild Wonders of Europe / Ziegler / Robber flies (Asilidae) mating, one with insect prey, The Peloponnese, Greece, May 2009

Laurie Campbell / Fly Agaric Fungus (Amanita muscaria) within forestry plantation, Strathspey, Scotland, UK, September

Stephen Dalton / Fly trapped in Venus flytrap {Dionaea muscipula}

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Mountain daisy (Leucanthemum adustum) flower with a fly on it, Liechtenstein, July 2009

Mark Bowler,Mark Bowler / Dead Houseflies {Musca domesticus} and Bluebottle flies {Calliphora vomitaria}, UK

Wild Wonders of Europe / Smit / Robber fly (Asilidae) with mosquito prey hanging from leaf, Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve, Serbia, June 2009

Jeff Vanuga / Man fly fishing for trout in a river in the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, USA, model released. July 2008

Guy Edwardes / Stone fly (Leuctra fusca) on Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium alternifolium) Zelske Jame, Skocjan Karst Gorge, Rakov Skocjan, Slovenia, April

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Fisherman fly-fishing in the Orkla River, Norway, September 2008 (Model released) River Orkla, Norway

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Fly-fishing in the Orkla River, Norway, September 2008 (Model released)

Juan Carlos Munoz / Fly agaric mushroom {Amanita muscaria} growing in taiga woodland, Laponia / Lappland , Finland

Juan Carlos Munoz / Fly agaric mushroom {Amanita muscaria} growing in taiga woodland, Laponia / Lappland , Finland

Bernard Castelein / Hover-fly flying {Syrphidae} Belgium

Andy Sands / Common house fly (Musca domestica) on cow dung, captive

Georgette Douwma / Domestic horse making use of another horse's tail as fly whisk. UK.

Jose B. Ruiz / Crane fly {Tipula sp.} hanging off blade of grass, Los barruecos NP, Malpartida de Caceres, Extremadura, Spain

Andy Sands / Common Bee Fly (Bombylius major) at rest on bramble, Captive, UK April

Andy Sands / Common Bee Fly (Bombylius major) at rest on bramble, Captive, UK April

Warwick Sloss / Common bluebottle fly {Calliphora vomitoria} drinking, UK

Michael Durham / Cape Sundew (Drosera capensis) with trapped Horse Fly (Tabanus bovinus), native to Cape Province, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Ogre-faced Spider (Deinopis sp) do not wait passively for an insect to fall into their web, instead, they cast sticky nets, La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica