2010 Photography Competition

First prize, adult category

Emerging Crane Fly

Danny Beath

Emerging Crane Fly, First Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

True flies

First prize, under 18 category

Southern Hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea

Sam Baylis

First Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category

Dragonflies and damselflies

Second Prize, adult category

Ant, Formica sp.

Pawel Bieniewski

Second Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies

Second Prize, under 18 category

Broad-bodied chaser, Libellula depressa

Ruth Carter

Second Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category

First prize, riverfly category

Mayfly at sunset

Danny Beath

First Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category

Mayflies or upwing flies

Second Prize, riverfly category

Adult mayfly on water

Lance Ostler

Second Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category

Mayflies or upwing flies

Specially Commended

Ant Formica sp. & wasp Vespula sp

Pawel Bieniewski

Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies

Hoverfly on flower

Sam Baylis

Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category

Blister beetle (Meloidae)

Wanyoike Wamiti

Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Beetles

6-spot burnet moth, Zygaena filipendulae, and common drone fly, Eristalis tenax, on brown knapweed

Jessica Caterson

Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category

Butterflies and moths

European Rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes nasicornis

Pawel Bieniewski

Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Beetles

Female mayfly Ephemera vulgata

Adrian Bicker

Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category

Mayflies or upwing flies

Male solitary bees, Melitta haemorrhoidalis, shelter in a Campanula flower overnight

Adrian Bicker

Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

These solitary bees turn out to be rather sociable. The males group together in Campanula flowers for shelter through the night and tend to ‘sleep in’ untul the temperature increases during the following morning.

These are the rather unfortunately named Melitta Haemorrhoidalis, an oligolectic species where the female uses only the pollen from Campanula flowers to provision the chambers in her underground nest.