Using photographs to reconnect people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps

Photographs by Clay Bolt

Nature photographer and WWF staffer Clay Bolt is passionate about connecting people with the biodiversity right outside their doors. To that end, in 2009 Bolt started Meet Your Neighbours with Scottish wildlife photographer Niall Benvie. Dozens of photographers around the world snap species in the field on a bright white background, offering a closer relationship to the wildlife in people’s backyards. Learn more at meetyourneighbours.net.

SILKWORM MOTH CATERPILLAR
Lonomia sp
Kanuku Mountains, Guyana

STICK INSECT
© Clay Bolt
STICK INSECT
Phasmatodae
Kanuku Mountains, Guyana
CANOPY JUMPER
© Clay Bolt
CANOPY JUMPER
Phidippus otiosus
Pickens, South Carolina
ORCHID BEE
© Clay Bolt
ORCHID BEE
Euglossa ignita
Cocobolo Nature Reserve, Panama
TREEHOPPER NYMPH
© Clay Bolt
TREEHOPPER NYMPH
Cymbomorpha sp
Cocobolo Nature Reserve, Panama
GIANT ICHNEUMON WASP
© Clay Bolt
GIANT ICHNEUMON WASP
Megarhyssa atrata
Seneca, South Carolina
IMPERIAL MOTH CATERPILLAR
© Clay Bolt
IMPERIAL MOTH CATERPILLAR
Eacles imperialis
Pickens, South Carolina
GIANT CASEMAKER CADDISFLY LARVAE
© Clay Bolt
GIANT CASEMAKER CADDISFLY LARVAE
Trichoptera sp
Estes Park, Colorado
LEAF KATYDID
© Clay Bolt
LEAF KATYDID
Typophyllum sp
Kanuku Mountains, Guyana
ORCHARD ORB WEAVER
© Clay Bolt
ORCHARD ORB WEAVER
Leucauge venusta
Pickens, South Carolina
HALLOWEEN SPIDER
© Clay Bolt
HALLOWEEN SPIDER
Araneus marmoreus
Pickens, South Carolina
FUZZY-LEGGED LEAFCUTTER BEE
© Clay Bolt
FUZZY-LEGGED LEAFCUTTER BEE
Megachile melanophaea
Madison, Wisconsin
GREEN DARNER DRAGONFLY
© Clay Bolt
GREEN DARNER DRAGONFLY
Ajax junius
Jean Lafitte National Park, Louisiana
SPINY BACKED ORB-WEAVER
© Clay Bolt
SPINY BACKED ORB-WEAVER
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Miami, Florida

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