The open trap of a carnivorous floating plant took first prize in the 2013 Olympus BioScapes Imaging Competition.
Now in its tenth year, the contest honors images of humans, plants, and animals taken through light microscopes.
Judges chose the 10 winning images out of 2,100 entries based on "the science they depict, their beauty or impact, and the technical expertise involved in capturing them," according to a press release.
The top prize went to Igor Siwanowicz, a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia. He will take home $5,000 worth of Olympus equipment.
Check out the award-winning images here and see more of the entries on the Olympus website.
Igor Siwanowicz, a neurobiologist, took first place with this picture showing the open trap of an aquatic carnivorous plant known as the humped bladderwort. You can see several single-celled green algae inside the plant.
Dorit Hockman from the University of Oxford took this image of a black mastiff bat embryo. The bat is at the "peek-a-boo" stage when its wings have grown to cover its eyes.
Igor Siwanowicz also took third prize for a composite image showing a collection of single-cell fresh water algae, called desmids.
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