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2025 Photography Competition Winners – 18 and over

Tuesday 10th February 2026

View the fantastic winning entries for the 2025 Photography Competition (Over 18 Category) below. The 2026 Photography Competition is now open. Enter your best three insect photos for your chance to win cash prizes. Terms and conditions Enter now 1st place Parasitic Play Eggs of Banana…

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.