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A selection of winners from the 2020 Close Up Photographer Of The Year. 

Above: a multi-hued glass worm by Andrei Savitsky; fruiting bodies of the slime mold Metatrichia floriformis growing on a decaying beech trunk by Bary Webb; a bioluminescent Lamprigera beetle in the Borneo rainforest by Chien Lee; a spider at Turjanos nature conservation area, Kisőrös, Hungary by Csaba Daroczi; an eel larva off the island of Lembeh (Indonesia) during a blackwater dive by Galice Hoarau (the overall winner);  a great crested tit in a wood in Switzerland by Giacomo Redaelli; a butterfly on the wall of an abandoned building site in Yorkshire by Mike Curry and a springtail on an icy lake at Csongrád-Bokros, Hungary by Tamás Koncz-Bisztricz (young photographer of the year).

More here.

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An insanely diverse selection of wildlife (including grouse, bobcats, deer, squirrels, beavers and a black bear) crosses a downed tree trunk spanning a river in Pennsylvania during 2018 and 2019: all captured by the locked-off camera of photographer Robert Bush Sr.

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A new natural history masterclass from zefrank. To wit:

If you’re at a bar, take your hand and mix the smells from your rear babbas, your front stank and your two pitzels and wave it at someone. Tens bucks says they leave.

Previously: True Facts About Dragonflies

Un albero, un anno – a short by Bruno D’Amicis & Umberto Esposito who used a locked-off camera to observe the diverse range of wildlife passing by a single tree in the Apennines in Calabria over the course of a year.

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