High in the canopy above the deep swamps of south Florida, the elusive and endangered ghost orchid clings to the trunks of cypress trees. With its delicate, curling tendrils and a nectar tube over a foot long, experts had always assumed the rare giant sphinx moth, with its super-long tongue, was the perfectly adapted insect to pollinate the flower. Over three summers, a team of ecologists and conservation photographers brave the waist-deep, gator-infested water of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary to capture the photo that puts a long-held theory of evolution to the test.

Colorado Premiere