2025 - Photography Archives - Insect Week

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Rupert Lees – (3) genus Mesopsocus, possibly Mesopsocus duboscqui or vernus (not recorded in UK).

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This is a 60 frame handheld focus stack of a tiny barklouse in the genus Mesopsocus, only around 2.5mm in length.

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Rupert Lees – (1) genus Sycophila; possibly Sycophila biguttata

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This focus stacked image shows a 2.5 mm hyperparasitoid wasp in the genus Sycophila injecting her egg into the bright pink gall of a Smooth Spangle Gall Wasp, Neuroterus albipes. A tiny mite also sits on the leaf just below the gall.

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Wayne Sayers – (1) Euplectrus sp.

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A cluster of wasp larvae (probably Euplectrus sp.) on their host caterpillar. The larvae stay on the outside of the caterpillar which will eventually die as a result.

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Raghuram Annadana – (2) Possibly Acanthaspis sp.

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What looks like a pile of trash is actually the Ant Stacking Nymph of an Assassin Bug. These young predators use ant carcasses as camouflage and armor—turning their victims into a gruesome disguise that hides them from both prey and predators.

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Raghuram Annadana – (1) Erionota thrax and Agiommatus sp.

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Banana skipper (Erionota thrax) eggs being parasitized by a wasp (Agiommatus sp.)

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas – (2) Phytoecia caerulescens

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A mating pair of blue longhorn beetles.

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Jeremiah Winden – (2) Pseudoproscopia scabra

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A detailed portrait of a horsehead grasshopper shot in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Jeremiah Winden – (1) Stictocephala bisonia

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A portrait of a buffalo treehopper

Competition 2025 – Photography – 18 and over – Luis Raúl Martínez García – (3) Euglossa sp.

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Euglossa flying through the heart of the Maya jungle.

Competition 2025 – Photography – Under 18 years – Jack Brackley – (1) Green-eyed flower bee

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A green-eyed flower bee is flying above flowers at Lackford Lakes in Suffolk.