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Alex Wild's Best Bug Pictures Of 2012

Since I’m asking everyone else to pony up a selection of their best science & nature photos of the year, I figure it’s only fair I participate. Here are 10 images I consider my personal favorites of the last 12 months.

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Plectroctena & prey (Uganda)

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Synoeca social wasp emptying water from her nest (Brazil).

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Tenodera mantis (Illinois)

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A questing dog tick, Dermacentor variablis

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Tetramorium pulcherrimum (Uganda)

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Dorylus soldier ant (Uganda).

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Tetragonisca angustula stingless bees (Brazil).

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Myrmecologist Flavia Esteves digs a trench to collect soil-dwelling ants in Uganda.

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Fruiting bodies of Dictyostelium discoideum, a social amoeba.

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Messor pergandei, reflected (California).

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