Winning Photographs 2012

Ladybird on flower, First prize 2012 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category

Floating adult mayflies, Second prize winner 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Female southern hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea, ovipositing on rotten log, reflected in water, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Hairy-footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes, looking through the keyhole, First Prize 2012 Photography Competition adult category

Three sawfly larvae, Pristiphora testacea, eating a birch leaf, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Male common blue damselfly, Enallagma cyathigerum, Specially Commended 2012 NIW Insect Photography Competition adult category

Red Admiral butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, on Mahonia, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Shieldbug, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Ichneumonid wasp on bark, Specially Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Seven spot ladybird, Coccinella 7-punctata, and aphid, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Scorpion Fly, Panorpa communis, 2nd Prize 2012 NIW Photography Competition under 18 category

Painted Lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, on honeysuckle, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Red Underwing moth, Catocala nupta, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Mayfly, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category

Mating stag beetles, Lucanus cervus, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Roesel's Bush-cricket, Metrioptera roeselii, at dusk, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category

Caddis fly egg mass on leaf overhanging water, 2nd Prize 2012 NIW Photography Competition riverfly category

Roosting heath fritillary butterflies, Melitaea athalia, on rush stem. Commended 2012 NIW Photography Competition adult category