Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a male Orchid bee (Euglossini) gathering nectar from an orchid (Lycomormium ecuadorense) flower, Imbabura Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Guy Edwardes / Marbled white (Melanagria galathea), two butterflies on Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis). Badbury Rings, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, UK. June.

Nick Upton / Male Thick-legged flower beetle (Oedemera nobilis), with a Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) pollinium attached to its head, nectaring on Common hogweed flowers (Heracleum sphondylium), Wiltsh...

Edwin Giesbers / Umbilicate woodcock orchid (Ophrys umbilicata) flowers. Cyprus. April.

Paul Hobson / Violet sabrewing hummingbird (Campylopterus hemileucurus) nectaring on Orchid. Costa Rica.

Chien Lee / Orchid Bee (Euglossa sp) sleeping by biting leaf, Utria National Park, Colombia

Willi Rolfes/ BIA / Pink Lady Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) flowers, Lower Saxony, Germany

Ross Hoddinott / Marsh fritillaries (Euphydryas aurinia) resting on spotted heath orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata), Dunsdon, near Holsworthy, Devon, UK. June 2016.

Ross Hoddinott / Marbled White butterfly (Melanargia galathea) resting on common spotted orchid, Dunsdon Nature Reserve, Devon, UK. July 2015.

Ross Hoddinott / Early-purple orchids (Orchis mascula), Broxwater, Cornwall, UK. April 2017.

Ross Hoddinott / Common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza fuchsii), backlit, Volehouse nature reserve, Devon, UK, June 2017.

Lorraine Bennery / Knapweed fritillary butterflies (Melitaea phoebe) on Green winged orchid (Anacamptis morio), Grands Causses Regional Natural Park, France, May.