2024 - Photography Archives - Insect Week

Competition 2024 – Photography – Under 18 years – Flynn Thaitanunde-Lobb – (3) Bluebottle fly

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Bluebottle fly perch on a bright green hedgerow in the front garden.

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – ji yuan – (1) 卡氏天狗螽 Lesina Karnyi

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Even a grasshopper can have a girlish side

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – Rupert Lees – (2) I believe the wasp is Dyscritulus planiceps and the aphid is Drepanosiphum platanoidis

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This sycamore aphid has been attacked by a parasitoid braconid wasp. Having emerged from the aphid, the wasp larva has constructed a disc-like cocoon beneath the 'mummified' body of the aphid.

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – Rupert Lees – (1) Pond Olive – Cloeon dipterum

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A freshly moulted male Pond Olive rests on a cupboard door in my kitchen.

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – Sydney Carnevale – (1) Iaphroides

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Genus Megaphorus. A portrait taken on a cool morning

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – Lee Frost – (1) (Coenagrion puella)

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$A damselfly settling down amongst the daisy's at dawn, with the golden spring sun refracting through it's wings.$

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – Tyler Redford – (2) Violet Leaf Beetle (Chrysolina strumi)

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Violet Leaf Beetle (Chrysolina strumi)

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – Luke Chambers – (3) Sympetrum sp.

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A Darter Dragonfly, resting after emerging from its old skin.

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – Luke Chambers – (1) Aphrophora sp.

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A Spittlebug, which is currently shedding its skin, taken from a creative angle to make its unfolded wings look like ears.

Competition 2024 – Photography – 18 and over – Ben James – (1) Geotrupinae

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A beetle in the sand dunes of Dorset.