First prize

Wallace’s Cyriopalus beetle
Dr Tim Cockerill (East Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
Cyriopalus wallacei. First Prize 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.
- Beetles
Second prize

Anax imperator eye
Peter Sabol
Second Prize 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Dragonflies and damselflies
Specially Commended

Male feather-horned beetle
Kerry-Ann van Eeden
Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Beetles
Commended

Warming up, the light giver
Jose Ramos, II
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Beetles

Blend in to survive
Lucia Chmurova
Grasshopper (Lobosceliana sp., family Pamphagidae). Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.
- Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets

Warming up
Denise Bishop
A bee photographed on a cold but sunny early morning in April, in the photographer’s back garden. Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.
- Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies

My annoying housemate
Adam Poledníček
Extreme close-up of the head of a bluebottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria). This photograph is composed of a focus-stack of 250 images. Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.
- True flies

Grasshopper nymphs
Narayan Patel
Two nymphs of the painted (or gaudy) grasshopper Poekilocerus pictus on roadside vegetation at Dediyapada in Vadodara district, Gujarat state. Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.
- Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets

Tachinid fly
Shelley Barkley
This tachinid fly (believed to be Athrycia cinerea) was reared in the laboratory from the larva of a noctuid moth (bertha armyworm, Mamestra configurata) that had been hand-collected from a field in central Alberta in August 2014.
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.
- True flies

A snout of distinction
Rory Morrisey
A female common snout-hoverfly, Rhingia campestris, showing the long snout typical of this genus and this species’ distinctive dark line along the side of the abdomen.
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.
- True flies

Mayfly
Bob Eade
A mayfly photographed near the village of Arlington by the River Cuckmere in East Sussex.
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.
- Mayflies or upwing flies

Zerynthia polyxena wing
Peter Sabol, (Croatia)
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Butterflies and moths

Migrant hawker
Paul Giles (Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom)
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Dragonflies and damselflies

Longhorn beetle (close-up)
Martin Smith, (Haskovo, Bulgaria)
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Beetles

Acorn weevil (Curculio glandium) on a stem of grass
Peter Paul Smith, (Warwickshire, England)
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Beetles

‘Jeff Goldblum lookalike’ (unidentified fly)
Richard Davies, (Suffolk, United Kingdom)
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- True flies

Soldier
Mrs Iuliana Dediu (Brăila, Romania)
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category

Banded demoiselle, male
David William Harris, (Northamptonshire, United Kingdom)
Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Dragonflies and damselflies

Striking a Pose. Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful categor
Dr Tim Cockerill – (East Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
This male mantis, Toxodera maculata, was photographed in the rainforest in Borneo. Its rather menacing posture, combined with its long (5cm) curved thorax and the leaf-like projections on its legs and body make it a strange sight.
- Mantises

Dromedarius
Beverley Brouwer (The Netherlands)
Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
- Butterflies and moths