Best Wildlife Photos of the Week

Snow-white blooms in the ‘Valley of the Daffodils’ in the Carpathian mountains, near the town of Khust, western Ukraine.
Photograph: Ukrinform/Barcroft Images

An emperor moth butterfly in a garden outside Moscow, Russia.
Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images

The first of this year’s cygnets hatches at Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset, UK.
Photograph: Credit: Graham Hunt/Alamy