A buzzing ball of mating bees is something people don't often see. The prestigious photography competition also features whales ready to mate and a hungry snake. See more of the year's best wildlife photos.
The winners of the Natural History Museum’s prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Karine Aigner’s remarkable image of a buzzing ball of cactus bees spinning over the hot sand on a Texas ranch won the Grand Title award. ‘Wings-whirring, incoming males home in on the ball of buzzi
Last month, London's National History Museum announced the photographers who were "highly commended" in their annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition: a collection of stunning, and occasionally harrowing, images of nature worldwide.Today, the winners of the competition are being crowned. Photographers from around the globe are being commended for capturing the depths of nature, from a fairy-tale-esque atmosphere in Mount Olympus, Greece to a giant sea star in Japan's Kinko Bay. Else