Winning Photographs 2010

Mayfly meal: common blue damselfly with lunch, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category

Emerging Crane Fly, First Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Hoverfly on flower, Specially Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category

Weevil on a leaf, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Mayfly at sunset, First Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly 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

Butterfly feeding, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult 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

Mayfly nymph shuck, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly 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

Mayfly on grass head, 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

Stonefly, River Annan, Dumfries & Galloway, UK, Commended 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category

Ant, Formica sp., Second Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Adult mayfly on water, Second Prize 2010 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category