National Insect Week returns in 2022
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
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
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
Female water snipe flies Atherix ibis clasp each other and cluster in big round aggregations on the end of branches overhanging rivers – males entering the swarms are mated repeatedly until they die. The females then lay their eggs in to the water – and all die still in their tight aggregations.