The rice weevil is a pest that buries its eggs inside rice grains. After hatching, the larva remains inside the grain, consuming it as it develops.
“I have observed rice weevils on grains before, but never one with its wings spread,” You said in a statement, according to a news release from contest organizers. “This one was naturally preserved on a window sill, perhaps in a last attempt to escape.”
In a process called focus stacking, he captured more than 100 images at different focal points and layered them to create an image with greater depth of field.
2nd place
The second prize went to the German Jan Rosenboom for his image of a colony of algae in a drop of water.
