First prize
![Broad-bodied chaser, Libellula depressa, on a plant stalk in the sun's rays](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202-1/Libellula depressa-1400x933.jpg)
Broad-bodied chaser
Petar Sabol
Libellula depressa.
- Dragonflies and damselflies
Second prize
![Stag Beetle, Lucanus cervus, climbing up a tree trunk](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/DSC_7670-1400x934.jpg)
The Climb
Ben Andrew
Stag Beetle, Lucanus cervus.
- Beetles
Specially commended
![Close up of a Common Blue Damselfly, Enallagma cyathigerum](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202-1/Keith Trueman-2-1400x933.jpg)
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](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/Fritillary butterfly_Zoltan Gyori-1400x933.jpg)
Backlight
Zoltan Gyori
Fritillary butterfly, Melitaea sp.
- Butterflies and moths
![Broom weevil, Exapion fuscirostre, on a yellow flower](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/Hangin tough - Broom Weevil-1400x1034.jpg)
Hangin’ Tough – Broom Weevil
Timothy Sexton
Exapion fuscirostre.
- Beetles
Damsels on parade
Paul Dibben
Damselflies
- Dragonflies and damselflies
![Locust jumping above yellow flower](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/IMG_1414a_2.jpg)
Jump!
Martin Tampier
Locust
- Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets
![Fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, on a green surface](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221208/the long and winding road!-1400x679.jpg)
The long and winding road
Sharon Repton
Fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
- True flies
![Tiger beetle and weaver ant.](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform/16-2-1400x933.jpg)
The last fight. Tiger beetle and weaver ant.
Ripan Biswas
- Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
- Beetles
Commended
![Green stick insect on green leaves](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202-1/Life in green-1400x930.jpg)
Life in green
João Petronilho
Stick insect.
- Stick-insects
![Grasshopper nymphs on a leaf](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/DSC_0572-1400x933.jpg)
Troops on the move
Milton Barbosa
Grasshopper nymphs.
- Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets
![Fly eating a small beetle.](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202-1/Predação 1_8578-1400x1021.jpg)
Predation
Antonio Carlos Freitas
Fly eating a small beetle.
- Beetles
- True flies
![Green mantis on a pink fence](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/mantis-scaled-1400x934.jpeg)
Mantis
Henry Lin
- Mantises
![Flag-footed Bug on a green leaf](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/DSC_01399-933x1400.jpg)
Flag-footed Bug
Sergio Vilchez
Photographed in Costa Rica.
- True bugs
![Two Ammophila wasps on dry grass at dawn](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202/IMG_9831s-1400x933.jpg)
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.](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/AHC_8958_8969-1400x1400.jpg)
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](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202-1/image_23-1050x1400.jpeg)
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](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/Covered in dew drops-1400x930.jpg)
Covered in dew drops (sawfly)
Beverley Brouwer
Family Tenthredinidae.
- True flies
![Two Marsh Fritillary butterflies, Euphydryas aurinia, on a twig](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202-1/MVP_0513.-1400x863.jpg)
Marsh Fritillaries
Mark Pike
Euphydryas aurinia.
- Butterflies and moths
![A robber fly poised on a stem, against a dark background](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/DSC_1346-1236x1400.jpg)
Robber Fly
TienHeng Low
Family Asilidae.
- True flies
![Close up of a Solitary Bee, Megachile willughbiella](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202-1/KeithTrueman-1400x933.jpg)
Solitary Bee – Megachile willughbiella
Keith Trueman
- Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
![Two Red Tipped Flower Beetles, Malachius bipustulatus, on a green leaf](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221202-1/Red Tipped Flower Beetles-1400x974.jpg)
Red Tipped Flower Beetles
Geraldine Stephenson
Malachius bipustulatus.
- Beetles
![Close up image of a Stalk-eyed fly, family Diopsidae, on a leaf](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/Diopsidae-1400x938.jpg)
Resting Stalk-eyed Fly
Weixang Lee
Family Diopsidae.
- True flies
![A dragonfly emerging from its nymph](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221130/23-2-1400x933.jpg)
Metamorphosis – a dragonfly emerging
Ripan Biswas
- Dragonflies and damselflies
![Sinuated Spoonwing, Nemoptera sinuata, and Rhinocoris iracundus on a plant with small yellow flowers](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221201/Beauty & beast _0-1400x975.jpg)
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](https://www.insectweek.org/wp-content/uploads/webform_import20221130/20150716_4554-1_0-1400x927.jpg)
Floating on colour, a male gall midge
Steve Palmer
Sub-family Cecidomyiinae.
- True flies