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  • 2024 Photography Competition Winners – 18 and over

    Thursday 30th January 2025

    View the fantastic winning entries for the 2024 Photography Competition (Over 18 Category) below. The 2025 Photography Competition is now open. Enter your best three insect photos for your chance to win. Enter now 1st place Detailed Gnat Ogre Benjamin Salb This is a…

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

    First image…

    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

    Second image…

    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

    First image…

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

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

    First image…

    Genus Megaphorus. A portrait taken on a cool morning

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

    First image…

    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)

    Second image…

    Violet Leaf Beetle (Chrysolina strumi)

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

    Third image…

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

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

    First image…

    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.
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