See a prize-winning photograph of mating golden-tabbed robber flies
10 May 2023
Pete Burford, who only took up macro photography two years ago, has won the Insect Week Photography Competition 2022 for this stunning close-up shot
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Endangered insects captured in vivid photographs
11 January 2023
Photographer Levon Biss's project Extinct and Endangered: Insects in peril combines thousands of shots of insect specimens to create these startlingly clear images
Dazzling photographs reveal the world on a microscopic scale
19 October 2022
From a close-up of a 1-millimetre-wide coral polyp to a shot of a tiger beetle clasping a fly, these photos are some of the top entries in the Nikon Small World 2022 Photomicrography competition
Spectacular red palm weevil scoops top award in bug photography prize
4 November 2020
This red palm weevil looks like it is ready for a boxing match. The close-up shot won Mofeed Abu Shalwa Luminar Bug Photographer of the Year 2020
Weird caterpillar uses its old heads to make an elaborate hat
24 June 2020
Meet the mad hatterpillar, the invertebrate that keeps its old moulted heads attached to its body to make a beautifully bizarre headpiece
Do ants bury their dead?
27 May 2020
A reader writes in to explain how ants deal with their dead by some members of the colony becoming "undertakers"
Hundreds of millions of locusts are forming swarms bigger than cities
5 February 2020
The worst invasion by desert locusts in decades has hit Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. The swarms are destroying crops and could cost millions of dollars to contain
Monarch butterflies' beautiful wing scales enable their epic migration
30 January 2019
This extreme close-up of a butterfly wing, made by stitching together 2100 exposures, shows the tiny scales that allow monarchs to fly thousands of kilometres
Amber time capsules: see an ancient insect in ultra-high resolution
21 November 2018
A new process developed by photographer Levon Biss captures incredibly detailed images of insects trapped in amber for 50 million years
An extreme close-up with a beautiful furry moth
5 September 2018
Look into the giant eyes of this poplar hawkmoth and you might be scared, but this hairy insect lacks any means to bite or hurt you
