Wildlife Photo of the Year 

Karine Aigner won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for this photo of a buzzing ball of cactus bees spinning over the hot sand in Texas.

According to the awards committee, this “beautifully composed close-up captures the moment a group of male bees compete to mate with a single female. After a few minutes, the pair at the center of the buzzing ball flew off together.”
The annual competition is run by the Natural History Museum in London. Aigner is only the fifth woman in the competition’s 58-year history to receive the top prize.

This is one of her photos that I especially liked:

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