Frank Ashwood<p>Podium finish for the Giant Springtail!</p><p>Congratulations to Team Velvet Worm for a hard-fought and well-deserved victory - making Ngãokeoke the 2025 New Zealand Bug of the Year!</p><p>It's brilliant to see a soil/deadwood invertebrate win the contest (they live alongside giant springtails!). Having two soil inverts in the top three winners is amazing awareness raising for soil biodiversity across the country and the world!</p><p>Thanks for all the support for <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/TeamGiantSpringtail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamGiantSpringtail</span></a>, we'll be back to win another year (but maybe I'll take next year off, it was a lot of work). Nice to see my photos in the Guardian article on the contest too: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/velvet-worm-new-zealand-bug-of-the-year-winner" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/feb</span><span class="invisible">/20/velvet-worm-new-zealand-bug-of-the-year-winner</span></a></p>
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Frank Ashwood<p>We're all on tenterhooks waiting for the results to be announced tomorrow for the NZ Bug of the Year competition!</p><p>Here's a few of my favourite contenders. Now voting is over I'll admit I have been quietly rooting for the velvet worm too - they're amazing animals, almost as great as giant springtails! </p><p>Whatever happens, thanks so much everyone for your support and patience with my endless vote soliciting on here.</p><p>Good luck tomorrow <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/TeamGiantSpringtail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamGiantSpringtail</span></a>! Fingers crossed!</p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Entomology</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/BugoftheYear2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BugoftheYear2025</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/SoilBiodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoilBiodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Aotearoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aotearoa</span></a></p>
Frank Ashwood<p>Only 24 hours left to vote for the Giant Springtails to win Bug of the Year!</p><p>If I haven't convinced you yet, perhaps this photo I took of one DEFENSIVELY BLEEDING will win you over. So metal.</p><p>We need every vote we can get, so please vote now: <a href="https://www.bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-</span><span class="invisible">here-2025/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Invertebrate</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/TeamGiantSpringtail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamGiantSpringtail</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/BugoftheYear2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BugoftheYear2025</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/BugoftheYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BugoftheYear</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Entomology</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Collembola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collembola</span></a></p>
Frank Ashwood<p>Only four days left in the Bug of the Year 2025 contest! </p><p>If every single one of my followers on here votes giant springtail RIGHT NOW, we'll easily beat the winner's votes last year! </p><p>Let's make it happen - we can't lose to the velvet worm in the last leg!</p><p><a href="https://www.bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-</span><span class="invisible">here-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/TeamGiantSpringtail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamGiantSpringtail</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/BugoftheYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BugoftheYear</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Macrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/SoilBiodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoilBiodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Enotomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enotomology</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/Invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Invertebrate</span></a></p>
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