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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including killer whales hunting a seal off Shetland and endangered mountain bongos in Kenya
[Image] Toronto, Canada A yellow-dusted cream moth (Cabera erythemaria) Photograph: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock 
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Late season third generation male common blue butterfly and a golden dung fly, Milton Keynes, England, UK.
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Male orange tip butterfly on a stinging nettle leaf, Hertford, UK.
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A Neopalpa donaldtrumpi moth – a new species of moth named after Donald Trump due to the blond scales on its head. Biologist Vazrick Nazari came up with the name as Republican congressmen announced their intentions to roll back the Endangered Species Act and hopes it will highlight the need for continued conservation.
Par Eric Hilaire. The Guardian, 20.01.2017
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→ Vous allez tout de suite comprendre pourquoi ce nouveau papillon a été baptisé Neopalpa donaldtrumpi - From www.huffingtonpost.fr - January 19, 12:20 PM
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"A small skipper butterfly (thymelicus sylvestris) rests on grass seed head in Nottinghamshire. Over three quarters of butterfly species in the UK have declined in the past 40 years Photograph: Scott Tilley/Alamy"
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"Parastrachia japonensis shield bugs sit on a leaf at a river bank in Tokyo, Japan - Photograph: Toru Hanai/Reuters" Via Bourdoncle
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Fighting rhinos, a young whale calf and a three-toed sloth feature in this week’s round-up of images from the natural world Continue reading... « A bee lands on snowdrops in the grounds of Springhead Trust in Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, England. The town of Shaftesbury is holding a snowdrop festival to mark the arrival of one the UK’s most popular flowers – seen by many as an indicator of the arrival of spring Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images »
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The best of this week’s images from the natural world include grazing giraffes, a jumping spider and a particularly nimble elephant [Image] « Beady green eyes of a jumping spider at 5x magnification. The Macropod, a portable 3D high-resolution device, captures the stunning details through automated photo stacking Photograph: Barcroft Media »
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Blue-tailed bee-eaters, beavers and fighting squirrels are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world The Guardian. « A dinner-plate sized Tasmanian cave spider in a cave at an unknown location in Tasmania, Australia. Filmmakers Joe Shemesh and Doug Thost have spent months in dark, wet Tasmanian caves recording the lives of the shy and light-sensitive spider for a documentary on the the prehistoric spider.Photograph: Joe Shamesh/EPA »
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Sea turtles, kingfishers and butterflies are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world [Image] « A butterfly on a flower at Nanhu park in Shenyang, China. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media »
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Salmon-fishing bears, Himalayan marmots and migrating wildebeest are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world
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Mating mayflies, an elephant feast and tiger rivalry are among the pick of this week's images from the natural world [Image] « Long-tailed mayflies fly over the surface of the Tisza River, south-east of Budapest. Millions of these short-lived mayflies engage in a frantic rush to mate and reproduce before they perish in just a few hours during 'Tiszaviragzas' or Tisza blooming season. Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters » Via Bourdoncle
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The Guardian. « Peregrine falcon chicks, caimans of Brazil and macaque monkeys of Malayisa » [Image] A large white-faced darter (Leucorrhinia pectoralis) rests on a flower in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA Via Bourdoncle
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A bee collects pollen from a cherry tree in Markendorf, Frankfurt an der Oder, eastern Germany.
Environment | The Guardian, 20.04.2018
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Crabs arrive from the surrounding forests to spawn on Playa Giron on the eastern side of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.
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A locust sits on Fynbos vegetation in Greyton, South Africa.
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A cicada nymph at Nanhu wetland park in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia
The Guardian, 12.08.2016
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A large Jerusalem cricket walks on a mossy log on a forested hillside near Elkton in southwestern Oregon. Jerusalem crickets are not true crickets and are not found in Jerusalem. They’re native to the western United States and Mexico
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The Guardian, 25.09.2015
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A wandering bear cub, spring flowers and a fighting gorilla feature in this week’s selection of images from the natural world [Image] A female giant wood spider at Gibbon wildlife sanctuary in Jorhat district, Assam, India. Females are large and grow to a body size of 30-50mm (overall size up to 20cm). It is one of the biggest spiders in the world Photograph: Luit Chaliha/Barcroft India
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Hungry bears, muddy hippos and glorious autumnal scenes feature in this week’s pick of images from the natural world The Guardian. « Banded demoiselle insects covered in morning dew, Hertfordshire, Britain. The bugs are unable to fly while covered in dew, so perch on plants and grass stems waiting for the rising sun to dry their wings before they take off. Photograph: Andy Sands/NPL/Rex Features »
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Rhino, cougars and painted storks are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world « An orange-eyed damselfly peeks out from behind a leaf in Negresti Oas, Romania. This one of many pictures of damselflies taken by Remus Tiplea in his back garden. Photograph: Remus Tiplea/Barcroft Media »
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Hummingbirds, leopards, pangolins and sharks are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world [Image] « An eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly is seen on a flower in the Shenandoah national park in Virginia. Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images »
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An elephant with an itch and a school for cranes are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world [Image] « A macro view of a spider at Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary in Assam, India. Photograph: Manas Paran/Barcroft India »
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Par Jo Blason. The Guardian. « Red pandas, white tigers and Tibetan antelopes are among the pick of this week's images from the natural world » [Image] « An insect crosses the launchpad of Russia's Soyuz-FG booster rocket and space capsulea at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP »
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