Ukrainian photographer Vyacheslav Mishchenko uses macro photography to bring the unseen and hidden beauty of the miniature world to life. What makes his close-up portraits so riveting is the…

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Now in their fourth year, the awards celebrate our native animals in their natural habitats and attract thousands of entrants from across the UK.

Vous allez changer d’opinion sur les insectes de nuit avec ce très mignon papillon. Avec son allure de gâteau, « l’anisote de l'érable » (« Rosy...

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Some of the winning and honored images from the 2018 Small World Photomicrography Competition

This isn't a Photoshopped post – those are these unique animals' natural bright colors! Most animals land somewhere along with the black, brown, or yellow color spectra, but not these creatures that are sporting some truly unique colors! These unusual animals illustrate that nature has a far more colorful and diverse color palette than you might have realized.

Bumblebees have the cutest butts in the garden, totally worth admiring. There, we said it. This post will let you enjoy and admire the finest examples.

Something quite special dwells beneath the surface of New Zealand and these images prove that the country is just as beautiful below ground as it is above! The Waitomo area is famous for it’s limestone caves and within these caves are one of the most magical insects in the world, the glowworm. Glowworms emit a phosphorescent glow that light up the cave and create a surreal environment. Over the past year I have been back and forth to Waitomo’s Ruakuri Cave to master the art of photographing these magnificent little creatures - it’s been quite the experience! When the headlamps are out and all you can see are the glowworms, you can’t help but feel like you’ve stepped into James Cameron’s Avatar Pandora, it’s just unreal! Photographing glowworms is very similar to shooting the night sky, however the exposure time can be much longer.

I cast my suffering away and bind it onto you— or so I think. But pain is a thick cord, a sticky strand, a thread spun deep within that does not break. The web, once woven, only joins. Every act of…