First Place - Carlos Ruiz (IMAGE)

American Institute of Biological Sciences

First Place - Carlos Ruiz

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Carlos Ruiz won first place with this photograph showing Cleopatra Pimienta, a biologist and doctoral candidate at Florida International University, working on her photographic record of insect-pollinated flowers in the Pine Rocklands habitat, deep in the Everglades in South Florida. Pimienta is seen here taking a picture of the flaxleaf false foxglove (Agalinis linifolia). The flaxleaf false foxglove is a wetland plant that is frequently visited by native bees and serves as a host for caterpillars of a species of butterfly common in the area, making it a keystone species in this habitat.

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Carlos Ruiz

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