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📸 One week to go!

Whether you've photographed butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies or something completely unexpected, there's still time to enter the RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition.

⏰ Entries close 31 October

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Insect Photography Competition
Entry deadline: 31 October
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October 24, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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This #spookyseason discover an incredibly rare New Zealand spider 🕷️🕷️🕷️

Project: bit.ly/4yJcdgw

Article in Systematic Entomology: bit.ly/4hvXZtB

#halloween #october #fall #happyhalloween #trickortreat #autumn @royentsoc.bsky.social #InsectWeek #spider #biology #evolutionarybiology #openaccess 🧪
October 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
royentsoc.bsky.social
📸🐞 Have you captured an incredible insect moment this year?

The RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition is still open for entries! Whether it's a striking snap, fascinating behaviour or beautiful encounter with insect life, we'd love to see your photographs.

⏰ Deadline: 31 October

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Photography Competition - Submit yours today!
Mantis (c) Tessa Kohn-Speyer
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October 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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🐝 Pollinating, hunting, feeding, courting, nesting...

Some of the most memorable insect photos capture behaviour in action. If you've photographed an insect doing something remarkable, it's a perfect time to enter the RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition.

⏰ Deadline: 31 October

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Royal Entomological Society Photography Competition - Insect Week
Royal Entomological Society
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September 29, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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a fiery skipper prepares to take wing, Los Angeles
#MacroMonday #macrophotography #insects #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #photohour #westcoastkin #insectweek #butterflies #wings #bug #bugsky #wildlife #wildlifephotography
#photography #wildlife #urbanwildlife #entomology #lepidoptera #butterfly
a closeup of a fiery skipper crouching before springing into flight from the petals of a pink, cream and butter-yellow lantana blossom. The butterfly is deerskin-brown with darker spots. The blossom is out of the depth of field, as is the verdant background.
September 28, 2026 at 10:10 PM
royentsoc.bsky.social
⏳ One month left to enter the RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition!

If you've been meaning to sort through your favourite insect photographs, now's the time. We can't wait to see the incredible images you've captured.

📸 Deadline: 31 October

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Royal Entomological Society Photography Competitions - Insect Week
Royal Entomological Society
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September 24, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Thank you to everyone who took part in #InsectWeek!

The week may be over, but discovery doesn't stop here. Keep exploring, learning & sharing your passion for the incredible insects that keep us thriving 🌍

Thank you for helping us enrich the world with #InsectScience 🐞

📸Robberfly (c) Jamie Smart
📸 Robber fly breakfast (c) Jamie Smart, Insect Week Photography Competition 2023
June 29, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Damselfly resting on a poppy stalk today.

#InsectWeek
Brown damselfly resting on a the top of a poppy stalk which is green with hairs reflecting in the sunlight. The poppy has lost its petals and is just the green seedhead now. In the blurry background, wildflowers including blue cornflowers.
June 28, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Hawk moth bonanza in my garden this morning. So excited to see a Poplar Hawk Moth for the first time 😍🦋
#mothsmatter #moth #insectweek
June 28, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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This DAZZLING beauty is a Ruby-tailed wasp (also known as a Jewel wasp), in the family Chrysididae. They’re a real treat to watch but on a hot day, boy are they FAST! Their incredible iridescent bodies might catch your eye, but it can be hard to keep up…

#InsectWeek
A tiny wasp rests on my thumbnail. Its head and thorax is metallic blue and its abdomen is a golden pink.
June 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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A Pied Hoverfly, Scaeva pyrastri, on Cotton Lavender in the garden of our holiday cottage last week. Just in time for the last day of #InsectWeek #PollinatorWeek and also one for #SundayYellow ! (I love the little curly edges to the flowers! 💛)
A Hoverfly with a black body and white stripes on the very bright yellow flowers of Santolina - Cotton Lavender
June 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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⏰ There's still time to share your #InsectWeek experience!

Every response helps us understand what visitors learned, what surprised them and what they'll remember after the event.

🐝 What surprised you?
🔍 What did you discover?
🐛 What was your favourite insect?

Let us know 🔽
Complete our short survey before 5 July & enter our prize draw.
Every response helps us understand what visitors learned, what surprised them and what they'll remember after the event.
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June 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Last day of #insectweek - here’s my favourite - the gorgeous thick-legged flower beetle!
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#beetles #bugs
Iridescent green beetle on white flower
June 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Hawkmoff City! #insectweek @dorsetmoths.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
June 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
royentsoc.bsky.social
You don't have to travel far to find amazing insects 🐝

From butterflies & bees to weevils & wasps, discover the incredible insects sharing your neighbourhood this #InsectWeek.

Take a closer look at your local parks, gardens & green spaces - you might be surprised by what you find!
Share what you've spotted in the comments!
#InsectWeek, the perfect opportunity to observe the species living around you 🐝
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June 28, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Finally the heat is off and I got to work in the garden … and so did this #WeeBee
Mind you, they never rest. Look at those wings going while it works on my Salvia Amethyst.
#InsectWeek #PollinatorWeek #UKGardening #Macro #MacroPhotography #Bee #BlurBee #ECK
A Buff-tailed Bumblebee clings to one of the tiny florets of a purple Salvia against a green background, its yellow and black fuzzy body shining in the sun and black head and globular eyes intent on its work. The wings are blurred as it readies itself for the next target. Camera: iPhone 15 PRO.
June 28, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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It's the last day - Found something fascinating? Share your #InsectWeek discoveries & inspire others to take a closer look at insects 🦋

Every sighting tells a story - Join the conversation by sharing yours & celebrate insect by commenting below.

Show us what you've spotted during #InsectWeek!
Privet Hawk Moth (c) Chris Scott
June 28, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Nice production line you got going there Alan at the Hypericum hypermarket. Also still #InsectWeek I think
June 28, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Last one for #insectweek from me. A Green Shield #bug, #hemiptera, coming round the side of a plant stem in the garden. #invertebrates #gardenwildlife #wildlifefrommywindow
A portrait photo that has a vertical green stem tightlyt wrapped with leaves running up the left side of the frame. The background to the photo is light and mid-green foilage that is all out of focus. Sat on the stem at an angle, but facing the camera and showing some of its underside, is a green insect. It has a small angular head with broad shoulders that form the leading edge of the shield from which it gets its name. It has light green legs and its underside, which makes up most of what can be seen of it, is a light green. From the middle of its head it has a green straw, with a dark line down the middle, extending as far as its middle legs. It is tucked up along its underside ready to use.
June 28, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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#InsectWeek #Macro #MacroPhotography #ECK

'Ello wee buddy 🐞😉
A close-up macro photograph of a glossy black ladybird with two bold cream-white spots on its wing cases and narrow flashes of red near the rear edges, perched delicately on the curved rim of a pale green flower bud. The beetle is angled downward as if carefully testing its next foothold, with its tiny antennae and front legs reaching into open space. Fine reflections ripple across its polished shell, revealing the smooth, domed surface in the soft morning light. The shallow depth of field melts the surrounding stems, buds and petals into a dreamy wash of greens, yellows and warm creams, creating a painterly backdrop that draws the eye firmly to the striking little insect. The composition balances crisp detail on the ladybird against an ethereal blur, giving a quiet sense of exploration as it pauses on the edge of the bloom before continuing its journey.
June 28, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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11/ Other hashtags to follow TODAY ( June 28th 2026 )

👉 (22nd - 28th June)
#InsectWeek
#InvasiveSpeciesWeek
#PollinatorWeek

👉 (24th - 30th June)
#WorldWellbeingWeek

👉 (25th June – 1st July)
#DeafblindAwarenessWeek (USA)

11 of 12 #SundayHashtags
June 28, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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It's #insectweek, and we are fluttering for joy after a fabulous day yesterday on our meadow walks.

Butterflies counted following the Big Butterfly Count,
notes taken for the Big Meadow Search,
and lots of spots spotted.
June 28, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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#SundayYellow from a pond in #Conwy yesterday with a beautiful golden centred water lily complete with two cute marmalade #hoverflies. #Bloomscrolling #vitaminN #InsectWeek
Marmalade hoverflies enjoying a beautiful waterlily yesterday
June 28, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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#SundayYellow with a super cute large skipper enjoying buttercups in #Preston on Tuesday. Such inquisitive and approachable #butterflies @savebutterflies #Lancashire #InsectWeek
A large skipper showing his chequerboard wing pattern on a buttercup
June 28, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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#SundayYellow from last Sunday at Wet Sleddale reserve and field buttercups being enjoyed by a camera shy marsh fritillary! @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Cumbria #InsectWeek
Buttercups with the fabulous underwing of marsh fritillary
June 28, 2026 at 6:24 AM