🥈 We’re thrilled to announce our #InsectWeek Photography Competition Under 18 second place winner: Jack Brackley, age 13 👏
🐝 Subject: Four-banded flower bee (Anthophora quadrimaculata)
📍 Location: Suffolk, UK 🇬🇧
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🥈 We’re thrilled to announce our #InsectWeek Photography Competition Under 18 second place winner: Jack Brackley, age 13 👏
🐝 Subject: Four-banded flower bee (Anthophora quadrimaculata)
📍 Location: Suffolk, UK 🇬🇧
View the galleries 🔽
📸 🏆 The overall winner of the #InsectWeek Photography Competition Under 18 category is 12-year-old Benji Cook (Instagram: benjis_macroverse)
🐜🦁 Subject: Antlion larvae (Synclisis baetica)
📍 Location: France 🇫🇷
View the winners' galleries 🔽
🥈 Our 2nd place winner in the #InsectWeek Photography Competition is Dara Ojo (IG: explorewithdara) with a striking image captures a leafhopper overtaken by a green Metarhizium fungus, revealing the dramatic and often unseen interactions that shape tiny ecosystems.
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📸 We’re delighted to unveil the winners of the RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition 2025!
🏆 Overall Winner Raghuram Annadana (IG: macro_by_raghu). The image shows a parasitic wasp laying its eggs inside Banana Skipper butterfly eggs.
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Emperor moth (Loepa sp.) A golden emperor moth rests on a perch after gliding in the summer night (c) Marco Chan 2023
🎄 Happy #ChristmasEve 🎄
Thank you to everyone who joined us for #InsectAdvent 🐞🦋🐝 We hope you’ve enjoyed the amazing images captured by photographers celebrated in our #InsectWeek photography competitions.
Here’s to a bright 2026 filled with curiosity, discovery and wonder of the insect world ✨
President of The Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social Prof Jane Stout, wrapping up the final session before lunch
Keep an eye out in 2026 for:
#ento26 ,
#insectweek #standtallforthesmall and
Phase III All Ireland Pollinator Plan (2026-2030)
One more day to enter!
Win ‘How to be a Dragonfly’ - a beautiful celebration of #Odonata 🐉🌿
✨ Follow royentsoc & dkbooks on Instagram + tag a friend to enter.
🗓️ Competition closes tomorrow (11 Nov) at midnight 🔽
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🪰 ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY! ✨🎁
Don’t miss your chance to win a copy of ‘How to be a Dragonfly’ - a perfect festive gift for nature lovers 🐉🌿
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🗓️ Closes 11 Nov at midnight
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🚨 Deadline day!
Today’s your final chance to enter the #InsectWeek Photography Competition 📷🐝
Celebrate the beauty and wonder of insects - submit your images before midnight for a chance to win 🔽
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📸 Last chance!
The #InsectWeek Photography Competition closes tomorrow, 31 Oct 🦋
Send us your best insect images - macro, artistic, scientific - we can’t wait to see your entries!
Enter now 🔽
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⏰ The countdown is on! The #InsectWeek #Photography #Competition deadline is this Friday (31 Oct) 🐝
Submit your photos of insects in all their fascinating forms - wild, wonderful and winged!
Enter now for a chance to win 🔽
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🦋 Just one week left to enter the #InsectWeek Photography Competition!
From bees to beetles, moths to mantids - every image tells a story. Don’t miss your chance to share yours 📸
🗓️ Deadline: 31 October 🔽
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🐞 Two weeks to go!
Enter the #InsectWeek Photography Competition and celebrate the beauty & diversity of insects through your lens 📷✨
🗓️ Deadline: 31 October 🔽
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Entries are open for the #InsectWeek #Photography #Competition 🐝
Show us your best shots of the incredible world of insects for a chance to win great prizes.
🗓️ Deadline: 31 October
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Top view of a widow skimmer dragonfly against a blurred green background. The white patches suggest this is an adult male.
A widow skimmer dragonfly against a muted green background.
An Eastern pondhawk dragonfly with its distinctive bright green body.
A blue dasher dragonfly with a dusty blue body and blue-green head.
A quartet of dragonflies for #InsectWeek.
#Insects #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Dragonfly #NaturePhotography #InsectPhotography #BugSky #BlueskyPhotography #Dragonflies #Odonata
I have seen more emperor dragonflies (Anax imperator) this year than in all my previous years combined 😍. I wonder if this is recency bias or whether they're having a bumper year?
#macrophotography #backyardnature
#odonata #dragonfly #entomology #insectweek #ecology #anaximperator
It's our last post for last month's #InsectWeek. We hope you enjoyed the whistle-stop tour of critters in our books.
One last fANTastic stop - 'Wild Places' (another title in our hi-lo Thunderbolts series).
Because who's working hard in our wild rainforests? Ants! Check out these fast facts.
We’re moving last month's #InsectWeek into the world of hi-lo fiction.
Will the insects looking for fresh meat in 'Crawlers' put you on the menu? Or will you end up in a deadly swarm, like poor Mrs Wiggins in 'Boffin Boy and the Deadly Swarm'?
(Great titles for engaging reluctant readers!)
We sank our teeth into this for #InsectWeek last month.
The title (‘Yucky Food’) is from Thunderbolts - a hi-lo reading programme for struggling/reluctant readers. Each book is on a genuinely cool topic - you get the facts, then a short fiction story.
Would you try a deep-fried tarantula?
FOUR vintage butterfly buttons for your craft projects!
#PlasticWisely #Butterflies #butterflywings #yellow #teal #green #insectweek #insect #insects #Bugs #WINGS #DIY #plastic #resin #Shanks #buttons #freeshipping @2Fun4Words
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Next up for last month's #InsectWeek… Ants being eaten by mushrooms?!
These guys appear in 'Mushroom Power' - a title in Reading Stars Achieve Phonics, our brand-new series of fully decodable books for older struggling/reluctant/EAL students who’re still securing phonics knowledge...
Thinking back to last month when it was #InsectWeek AKA a fab excuse to show off some of our creepy, crawly and outright fascinating insect content.
This spread is from 'We Need Bees'. A fully decodable book (part of our Reading Stars Phonics range) - it can be read independently by kids at L&S P5!
#InsectWeek may be over, but it's never too late to show the world how remarkable insects are - Take part in our #PhotographyCompetition by submitting your best insect selfie 🦋
Submit your best three insect photos for the chance to win great prizes 🔽
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Last chance to enter our #Giveaway 📚
In celebration of #InsectWeek and the release of our brand-new book, 'How to be a Ladybird' with DK Books, we’re offering one lucky winner their very own copy 🐞
Competition closes at midnight on 7 July.
✨ Enter on Instagram 🔽
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The @royentsoc.bsky.social book #Giveaway closes tomorrow!
To celebrate #InsectWeek and the release of our new book, 'How to be a Ladybird' with DK Books, we’re offering one winner their own copy 🐞
✨ Enter on Instagram before the competition closes on 7 July 🔽
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We bid a fond farewell to #InsectWeek for another year, but it's never too late to appreciate insects and all they do for the world around us 🦋
See some #InsectPhotography at World Museum Liverpool for the RES #PhotoExhibition until 20 July 2025 🔽
Birch Shieldbug (Elasmostethus interstinctus). Photo by Paul Davis. @hertswildlifetrust.bsky.social @hnhsoc.bsky.social @colnevalley.bsky.social @colnecan.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social #insect #shieldbug #insectweek
where was this last #InsectWeek !!
Have you entered the @royentsoc.bsky.social book #Giveaway yet? There's one week left!
To celebrate #InsectWeek and the release of our new book, 'How to be a Ladybird' with DK Books, we’re offering one winner their own copy 🐞
Competition closes on 7 July.
✨ Enter on Instagram 🔽
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