2016 - 18 and over Archives - Insect Week

Floating on colour, a male gall midge

A male gall midge with a green, yellow and pink background

Beauty and Beast

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

Metamorphosis – a dragonfly emerging

A dragonfly emerging from its nymph

Resting Stalk-eyed Fly

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

Red Tipped Flower Beetles

Two Red Tipped Flower Beetles, Malachius bipustulatus, on a green leaf

Solitary Bee – Megachile willughbiella

Close up of a Solitary Bee, Megachile willughbiella

Robber Fly

A robber fly poised on a stem, against a dark background

Marsh Fritillaries

Two Marsh Fritillary butterflies, Euphydryas aurinia, on a twig

Covered in dew drops (sawfly)

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

Autumnal Feathered Thorn moth

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