116 days to go to Insect Week
Mayfly meal: common blue damselfly with lunch, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category
Hoverfly on flower, Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category
Common blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus, on lavender, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category
Broad-bodied chaser, Libellula depressa, Second Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category
Blister beetle (Meloidae), Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category
Ant Formica sp. & wasp Vespula sp, Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category
6-spot burnet moth, Zygaena filipendulae, and common drone fly, Eristalis tenax, on brown knapweed, Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category
Pair of dung-flies, Scathophaga sp., on blackberry, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category
European Rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes nasicornis, Specially Commmended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category
Female mayfly Ephemera vulgata, Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category
Male solitary bees, Melitta haemorrhoidalis, shelter in a Campanula flower overnight, Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category
Beetle on wet pavement, Mallorca, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category
Female mayfly, Ephemera vulgata, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category
Southern Hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea, First Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category
Adult mayfly at sunset, First Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category
'Thanatosis' is the scientific term for pretending to be dead, which is how many insects hide from predators.
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