Insect Week Art and Photography Competitions

The Royal Entomological Society runs annual insect photography and art competitions for non-professionals.

View the fantastic images from past competitions below.

The 2024 Competitions are now closed.

Thank you to everyone who entered. We look forward to announcing the results in 2025!

Galleries

Conceptual ceramic interpretations of wood boring beetles against the backdrop of a decaying beetle inhabited cherry tree stump.
2023 Art Competition Winners
Two Cuckoo Bees (Epeolus variegatus) fast asleep, grasping onto the grass with their mandibles. Still with a few drops of morning dew on them. Handheld focus stack.
2023 Photography Competition Winners – Over 18 Category
I was able to find many of these gorgeous banded demoiselle by a river near my home in Gävle, Sweden. With the help of the nearby blades of grass I could create foreground and background elements in order to create depth in the image.
2023 Photography Competition Winners – Under 18 Category
It's takes two
2022 Photography Competition Winners – Over 18 Category
Fresh Out Of The Shower
2022 Photography Competition Winners – Under 18 Category
Fragment of Beauty by Alexandria Coen, 1st place in 13-18 category, Insect Week 2022 art competition
2022 Art Competition Winners
Chrysolina banksii
2021 Photography Competition Winners – 18 and Over Category
Carder Bee
2021 Photography Competition Winners – Under 18 Category
German wasps, Vespula germanica, drinking
2020 Photography Competition Winners – 18 and Over Category
Marmalade hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus, on a pink flower
2020 Photography Competition Winners – Under 18 Category
Orange tip butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, and mayfly on a purple flower bud
2018 Photography Competition Winners – 18 and Over Category
Mayfly on an unfurled fern frond
2018 Photography Competition Winners – Under 18 Category
Broad-bodied chaser, Libellula depressa, on a plant stalk in the sun's rays
2016 Photography Competition Winners – 18 and Over Category
Bee on a sunflower
2016 Photography Competition Winners – Under 18 Category
Damselflies mating
2014 Photography Competition Winners- Insect Alive Category
This male cerambycid, like many longhorn beetles, has impressive antennae – in this case about 12cm from tip to tip – to detect and locate females, who produce a sex-attractant pheromone.
2014 Photography Competition Winners- Small Is Beautiful Category
Hairy-footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes, looking through the keyhole
2012 Photography Competition
Emerging Crane Fly
2010 Photography Competition
Praying mantis in a sunflower field
2008 Photography Competition
Water Measurer with fly as prey
2006 Photography Competition Winners – British Insect Category
Elegant Grasshopper Nymph
2006 Photography Competition – Foreign Insect Category