BBC Climate and Science
At first glance, the Potter wasp appears riding a broom.
But this hardworking insect is not going back to shaking the virtue of its witch or to play Quidich. It is carrying a caterpillar – hunting to feed your youth.
It was captured by Macro Wildlife Photographer Bidute Kalita and was one of the highly commendable entries in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
The winning images will be announced on 14 October, followed by an exhibition at the Natural History Museum, showing 100 standout photographs from around the world.
Scroll down to detect other high appreciation functions from the competition.
Topic: no place like home
Photographer: Emmanuel Tardi (France)
Place: El Tanak, San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Mr. Tardi pasted a brown to Throtted Three Oth with a thorny wire post after crossing a road.
Since the loss of the tree, their houses are fragmented, the sloth is forced to make more ground crossings to reach the next tree, making them weakened.
Topic: Snow travel
Photographer: Burty Gregory (UK)
Place: Actstrom Ice Shelf, Atka Bay, Antarctica
Mr. Gregory captured a group of tetting emperor Penguin Chicks on the edge of an ice shelf.
After spending two months to observe the colony, they noticed that most of the girls looked at the sea to safely landed in the sea using the natural ice ramp – but the group had remembered the easy route.
Left for himself, Emperor Penguin Chicks should finally jump into the icy ocean for his first attempt to feed.
Scientists believe that the decline in sea ice may force the penguins to breed on ice shelves, making such a jump.
Topic: mud
Photographer: Kutab Udin (Bangladesh/UK)
Place: Slindon Wood, West Sussex, England, UK
Mr. Udin discovered a group of muds of mud arranged on a log falling into a forest. He described the scene as a “bizarre family picture”, completing with a small yellow insect eggs.
A mud mold contains organisms such as mobile, single-cell, amoeba that live independently, but can come together to act as a single unit to find and breed food.
Topic: Routing call
Photographer: Jamie Smart (UK)
Place: Bradgate Park, Lessestershire, UK
During the autumn at Bradgate Park, a red deer stag Dhunkni, as was occupied by Miss Smart from a safe distance.
He avoided long grass by pulling upwards to keep the scene clear.
The stag antillers, now completely rigid and velvet, free, recreate each spring, become more impressive with each year because new points develop tines.
Topic: Inside the pack
Photographer: Amit Eshel (Israel)
Place: Alasmere Island, Nanavut, Canada
The eye with a curious Arctic Wolf Pack in IN35C ‘Level’, Mr. Ishael fulfilled his dream to take a picture of these elusive creatures.
Wolves have come so close that he could sniff his breath.
Arctic wolves found only in North and Northern Greenland of Canada are eager to humans due to minimal risk.
Topic: Essence of sarachatka
Photographer: Keshav Vikram (India)
Place: Kuril Lake, Dastak Kra, Russia
After the days of patience, Shri Vikram captured a brown bear running on the banks of the Kuril lake with a cloud walking with the Ilinski volcano.
While the bears are generally solitary, it was going to feast with others on the glow of a sauki salmon, who was migrating from Prashant to its original lake to spawn.
Topic: A story of two coints
Photographer: Param Porhmad (USA)
Place: Bernal Heights Park, San Francisco, California, USA
Catching the morning light, Mr. Pourhmad implicated a woman’s amber eye inside a woman’s black tail curve.
He followed the pair across the Rocky Hilcide for a few hours and took his shot when the man gave a woman to the woman.
The coeots are highly adaptable and are beginning to re -establish themselves in San Francisco, where they once disappeared.
Topic: pink Colour
Photographer: Leena custer (switzerland)
Place: Pont de Gau, Camerag, France
Leana Kuster shows a large flamingo in the task of scratching her head, with one of its surefire long legs.
While on vacation, she was fascinated by her forging behavior as she went through the filter-feeding for shallow, saline wetlands, mollusks and crustaceans.
Flemingos use their tongue to pump water through their uniquely adapted bills, which are rowed with rows of well, comblaic plates.
The pink color of Greater Flamingo comes from a high diet in carotenoids – the pigments found in algae and the shrimp such as a wise.
Topic: Deadly text
Photographer: Marina Cano (Spain)
Place: Sambharu National Park, Sambharu County, Kenya
In Sambharu National Park in Kenya, Marina Cano saw the young cheetah practicing a hunting on a dick, dick, in which her mother saw closely.
The cheetah cubs remain hidden for two months and join the victim of almost a year to learn hunting and murder skills at the age of only one year.
Topic: Toxic tip
Photographer: Lakshmi Karunaratna (Sri Lanka)
Place: Ampara, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, Lakshmi Karunarathana documented a single Asian elephant, navigating an waste disposal site.
Over the last three years, he has been recording the effects of humans on elephants in the region.
The landfill site in AMPARA was built near a protected wildlife area over a decade ago which is a home of about 300 elephants. With food scrap, they consume plastic, which gradually kills them, saying the authorities.
Topic: wake up call
Photographer: Gabriella Komi (Italy)
Place: Cerengeti National Park, Tanzania
Gabriella Komi and her guide David saw a cobra moving towards two naping lions in the Serengty National Park in Scotching Midde Sun.
The biggest lion raised his head to face the threat to slip.
Topic: Jelly smack summer
Photographer: Ralph Paes (USA)
Place: Montere Bay, Montere, California, USA
In the midst of a mass of Pacific C Natals – or in the middle of “smack”, any skin coated to Mr. Paes was not covered by his weightcoot with petroleum jelly to protect himself from sting.
The follower tents can distribute a painful sting, which Mr. Paes says that seems more like a bee than a laying.
Topic: Nature reinforces its location
Photographer: Sitaram Raul (India)
Place: Banda, Maharashtra, India
In total darkness, Mr. Raul stood between bats of fruit emerging from a historic ruins, using focus and flash to catch this moment. The bats hit the overhead on that and his camera while “hunting randomly”.
In southern Asia, bats of the old world fruit often roam in abandoned buildings.
Topic: Delicate river
Photographer: Isaac Sazabo (USA)
Place: Columbia County, Florida, USA
In a crystal clear Florida River, Mr. Sazabo took a picture of a woman Longonose Gar with many men during the sexual season. According to Mr. Sazabo, a turtle flowing in the scene was “ising on cake”.
The river is one of the over 1,000 waterways fed by freshwater springs, known for their extraordinary clarity. It is necessary to protect aquifers that maintain these springs, not only for iconic wildlife such as maanets, but also for drinking water supply to about half of Florida population.
Topic: Gold clouds
Photographer: Jassen Todorov (USA)
Place: San Francisco Bay, California, USA
Shri Todorov captured the clouds reflected in huge salt ponds while flying in San Francisco.
The ponds, which cover around 5,000 hectares, display constant changing colors -a scene says that he never gets tired.
The process of salt collection in San Francisco Bay was industrialized in the 1800s, but now the Gulf salt ponds are part of a major restoration project, which bring back tidal and wildlife.