First prize

Broad-bodied chaser, Libellula depressa, on a plant stalk in the sun's rays

Broad-bodied chaser

Petar Sabol

Libellula depressa.

  • Dragonflies and damselflies

Second prize

Stag Beetle, Lucanus cervus, climbing up a tree trunk

The Climb

Ben Andrew

Stag Beetle, Lucanus cervus.

  • Beetles

Specially commended

Close up of a Common Blue Damselfly, Enallagma cyathigerum

Looking at you looking at me

Keith Trueman

Common Blue Damselfly, Enallagma cyathigerum.

  • Dragonflies and damselflies
Backlit Fritillary butterfly, Melitaea sp., with a spider's web in the background

Backlight

Zoltan Gyori

Fritillary butterfly, Melitaea sp.

  • Butterflies and moths
Broom weevil, Exapion fuscirostre, on a yellow flower

Hangin’ Tough – Broom Weevil

Timothy Sexton

Exapion fuscirostre.

  • Beetles
Six blue and gree damselflies on a water lily leaf

Damsels on parade

Paul Dibben

Damselflies

  • Dragonflies and damselflies
Locust jumping above yellow flower

Jump!

Martin Tampier

Locust

  • Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets
Fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, on a green surface

The long and winding road

Sharon Repton

Fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

  • True flies
Tiger beetle and weaver ant.

The last fight. Tiger beetle and weaver ant.

Ripan Biswas

  • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
  • Beetles

Commended

Green stick insect on green leaves

Life in green

João Petronilho

Stick insect.

  • Stick-insects
Grasshopper nymphs on a leaf

Troops on the move

Milton Barbosa

Grasshopper nymphs.

  • Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets
Fly eating a small beetle.

Predation

Antonio Carlos Freitas

Fly eating a small beetle.

  • Beetles
  • True flies
Green mantis on a pink fence

Mantis

Henry Lin

  • Mantises
Flag-footed Bug on a green leaf

Flag-footed Bug

Sergio Vilchez

Photographed in Costa Rica.

  • True bugs
Two Ammophila wasps on dry grass at dawn

An aggregation of two Ammophila wasps at dawn

Sean McCann

The wasps were photographed on dry grass at McDonald Beach, Richmond BC.

  • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
Ten Common green shieldbugs, Palomena prasina, are emerging from their eggs, 17 have emerged leaving egg cases and beaks, and one has failed and is still green.

Common green shieldbug eggs hatching

Anthony Cooper

Ten Palomena prasina shieldbugs are emerging, 17 have emerged leaving egg cases and beaks, and one has failed and is still green.

  • True bugs
Brown Feathered Thorn moth, Colotois pennaria, disguised against a background of brown Autumn leaves

Autumnal Feathered Thorn moth

David Fotheringham

Colotois pennaria.

  • Butterflies and moths
Sawfly upside down on a green leaf, with both the leaf and the sawfly covered in small beads of water

Covered in dew drops (sawfly)

Beverley Brouwer

Family Tenthredinidae.

  • True flies
Two Marsh Fritillary butterflies, Euphydryas aurinia, on a twig

Marsh Fritillaries

Mark Pike

Euphydryas aurinia.

  • Butterflies and moths
A robber fly poised on a stem, against a dark background

Robber Fly

TienHeng Low

Family Asilidae.

  • True flies
Close up of a Solitary Bee, Megachile willughbiella

Solitary Bee –  Megachile willughbiella

Keith Trueman

  • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
Two Red Tipped Flower Beetles, Malachius bipustulatus, on a green leaf

Red Tipped Flower Beetles

Geraldine Stephenson

Malachius bipustulatus.

  • Beetles
Close up image of a Stalk-eyed fly, family Diopsidae, on a leaf

Resting Stalk-eyed Fly

Weixang Lee

Family Diopsidae.

  • True flies
A dragonfly emerging from its nymph

Metamorphosis – a dragonfly emerging

Ripan Biswas

  • Dragonflies and damselflies
Sinuated Spoonwing, Nemoptera sinuata, and Rhinocoris iracundus on a plant with small yellow flowers

Beauty and Beast

Peter Smith

Sinuated Spoonwing, Nemoptera sinuata, and Rhinocoris iracundus.

  • Lacewings, antlions and mantidflies
  • True bugs
A male gall midge with a green, yellow and pink background

Floating on colour, a male gall midge

Steve Palmer

Sub-family Cecidomyiinae.

  • True flies