68 days to go to Insect Week
Warming up, the light giver, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Blend in to survive, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Warming up, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
My annoying housemate, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Grasshopper nymphs, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Tachinid fly, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
A snout of distinction, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Mayfly, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Zerynthia polyxena wing, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Migrant hawker, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Longhorn beetle (close-up), Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Acorn weevil (Curculio glandium) on a stem of grass, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
‘Jeff Goldblum lookalike’ (unidentified fly), Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Soldier, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Banded demoiselle, male, Commended in 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautul category
Striking a pose, Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Dromedarius, Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Male feather-horned beetle, Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Anax imperator eye, Second Prize 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Wallace’s Cyriopalus beetle (Cyriopalus wallacei), First Prize 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Alone in the dark, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Mate, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
A katydid completes its moult, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Even educated weevils do it! Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Parental care, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Resting time, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Large rose sawfly laying eggs, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive
Sleeping Nomada, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insect Alive category
Lunchtime, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Male blue tiger butterfly with tiger moth caterpillar on Crotalaria pods, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Coupled blue-tailed damselflies, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Five-spot burnet (Zygaena trifolii) feeding on buttercup, Commended 2014 Photography Competition Insects Alive category
I see you, I have eyes in the back of my head, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
The Alamo! Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
New coat, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Family planning, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Marbled whites mating, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Orthetrum cancellatum dragonflies mating, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Honeymoon on flower, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Reed beetle preening, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Cuckoo wasp laying an egg, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Small white feeding, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Small paper wasp building nest, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Well captured, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
My annoying housemate, Commended in the 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category
Multi-tasking, Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Life in the lilypads, Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive
Ready! Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Manganese drill bit, Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Fire and brimstone! Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive
Sawflies eating a birch leaf, Second Prize 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
Damselflies mating, First Prize 2014 NIW Photography Competition Insects Alive category
The giant weta from New Zealand is the heaviest known insect species, one individual was found to weigh 71g.
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