It's a manic moment - a swarm of male cactus bees enveloping a female bee. Suspense: In this love-filled melee, who will be the lucky one to mate with her? This work by Karine Aigner won the overall championship in the 2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition (WPY). In a sense, this is a very technical piece of photography; it requires the use of a macro probe lens to get close to the heart of the subject.
“I had to lie face down in the mud for a long time,” Karin laughed.
Buzz: Karin Aigner's 2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner took weeks to capture the moment a bee fights for mating rights.
The American photographer is only the fifth woman in the WPY's 58-year history to win the top prize.
She told BBC News: "I wasn't looking for it. I had been working on a ranch in South Texas for many years and just happened to be in this area. I saw these little 'volcanoes' all over the ground - female The caves dug by the peaks for nesting.”
Cactus bees, as their name suggests, live on and around cactus plants. The female collects pollen, forms it into small balls and stores it in burrows in the soil. These balls are used to feed bee larvae until they mature into bees and fly out of the nest to begin their reproductive cycle.
"It's a great image, full of dynamic energy. It's a proper 'behavioral' shot. That's what you get from invertebrates, and that's why I love them," said Roz, WPY jury chair. Roz Kidman Cox said.
"And the composition. It's the bee coming in from the side that completes the picture. It provides the 'background music.'"
The Beauty of Baleen: Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn went out to sea 20-30 times for this photo.
The 2022 Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year crown goes to Thailand’s Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn, 16 years old.
His winning entry was a close-up of Bryde's whale, and the baleen disc in its mouth used to filter food.
You can see a sardine flying through the air trying to escape being eaten by a cetacean.
“For some reason, the sardines jumped on the boat,” Katayou recalled. "I was lucky. I was on the boat and approached there. The whale stayed on the surface for about a minute."
The WPY is one of the most prestigious competitions of its kind in the world of photography. It was founded in 1964 by BBC Wildlife Magazine and is now run by the Natural History Museum in London.
This year's event attracted 38,575 participants from 93 countries.
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