First prize

Mayfly on an unfurled fern frond

Mayfly on an unfurled fern frond

Zach Haynes

  • Mayflies or upwing flies

Second prize

Low level view of a bee on a piece of metal or glass

Reflecting

Shannon Cansfield

Bee

  • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies

Specially commended

Lang's Short-tailed Blue butterfly, Leptotes pirithous, on sandy soil

Lang’s Short-tailed Blue

Alex Perry

Leptotes pirithous.

  • Butterflies and moths
Dragonfly on a seed head

Dragonfly Impossible

Rebecca Hyde

  • Dragonflies and damselflies
Marmalade Hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus, in front of a flower with a black background

Hoverfly honing in

Zach Haynes

Marmalade Hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus.

  • True flies
Green Golden Beprestid beetle, Buprestis aurulenta, on a pale pink iris flower

Golden Buprestid on Iris

Gavin Pandya

Golden Buprestid, Buprestis aurulenta.

  • Beetles