1st Prize

Orange tip butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, and mayfly on a purple flower bud

Orange tip butterfly and mayfly sharing

Petar Sabol

Orange tip butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, and mayfly.

  • Butterflies and moths
  • Mayflies or upwing flies

2nd Prize

A female potter wasp, Oreumenes decoratus, returning to her nest carrying a mud pellet

Potter wasp, Oreumenes decoratus, returning to her nest

Wen-Chi Yeh

A female potter wasp, Oreumenes decoratus, returning to her nest carrying a mud pellet which will be used to make the nest.

  • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies

Specially Commended

Planthopper nymph with 'fibre optic' tail

Planthopper nymph with ‘fibre optic’ tail

Weixiang Lee

  • True bugs
Merveille du jour moth, Dichonia aprilina, camouflaged on lichen

Wonder of the day (Dichonia aprilina)

Andrew Geen

Merveille du jour moth, Dichonia aprilina.

  • Butterflies and moths
Green and black caterpillar after shedding its skin on a plant stalk

Metamorphosis

Ivan-Marios Mezitis

  • Butterflies and moths
Oblong-winged katydids, Amblycorypha oblongifolia, in flight.

Kite (Amblycorypha oblongifolia)

Martin Tampier

Oblong-winged katydids, Amblycorypha oblongifolia, in flight.

  • Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets
Fly covered in water droplets on a green leaf

Bejewelled Fly

Beverley Brouwer

  • True flies
Mayfly resting on a stem in the early morning, just before sunrise

Mayfly resting just before sunrise

Petar Sabol

Mayfly resting on a stem in the early morning, just before sunrise.

  • Mayflies or upwing flies
Broad Bodied Chaser dragonfly, Libellula depressa

Water reflections through greenery

Simon Carder

Broad Bodied Chaser, Libellula depressa.

  • Dragonflies and damselflies
Two Cuckoo bees, Coelioxys sp., on a twig

Bedtime

Zoltan Gyori

Cuckoo bee, Coelioxys sp.

  • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies

Commended

Dark Green Fritillary, Speyeria aglaja, on a purple flower, and a bee

Two for the price of one

Michael Bird

Dark Green Fritillary, Speyeria aglaja, and a bee.

  • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
  • Butterflies and moths
Caterpillars on silk

Caterpillars on silk

Narayan Patel

  • Butterflies and moths
Hoverfly on a Helenium flower head

Sunfly on Helenium

Juergen Specker

Hoverfly.

  • True flies
Treehopper on a vine leaf

Treehopper on vine

Martin Taylor

Ceresa sp.

  • True bugs
Common Blue/Azure Damselflies reflected on a pond surface

Damselfly symmetry

Andrew Neal

Common Blue/Azure Damselflies.

  • Dragonflies and damselflies
Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui, on small purple flowers

Painted Lady

Denise Bishop

Vanessa cardui.

  • Butterflies and moths
Tightly packed caterpillars on a green leaf

Just one world

Deepak Kumbhar

Caterpillars.

  • Butterflies and moths
Six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae, on knapweed

Six-spot burnet and knapweed at dawn

Simon Carder

Zygaena filipendulae.

  • Butterflies and moths
Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia Axyridis, on a red rose petal

A walk in the rain

William Richardson

Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia Axyridis.

  • Beetles
Three bees surrounded by ants

Under siege

David Holland

Bees and ants. A tricky scene to photograph, the outside of the bee nest was covered by ants and the bees were in danger every time they left or entered the nest.

  • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
Two Black-veined White butterflies, Aporia crataegi, on a grass seed head

Black-veined Whites

Katarzyna Bukowska

Aporia crataegi.

  • Butterflies and moths
Stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, on a branch

The vice

Zoltan Gyori

Stag beetle, Lucanus cervus.

  • Beetles
Two black and yellow moths on a white and yellow flower

One love

Faith Melencio

  • Butterflies and moths
Herald moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix, on blackberries

Autumns Herald

Iain Cowe

Herald moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix.

  • Butterflies and moths