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Stunning image of a red palm weevil wins top prize at this year's Luminar Bug Photography Awards - Daily Mail
Oct 23, 2020 2 mins, 7 secs

The Luminar young bug photographer of the year 2020 winner was 17-year-old Jamie Spensley from the UK who captured this close up image of a common carder bee captured resting on a leaf in Cornwall.

Li Feng shared this image named 'Look' and claimed 3rd place in the beetles category.

A stunning close up image of a red palm weevil looking ready for a boxing match was the overall winner at the first Lumina Bug Photography Awards competition, that featured dozens of images of a world rarely seen.

Galice Hoarau's 'Diamond Squid' was the winner of the aquatic bugs category.

Reynante Martinez took this image dubbed 'Tug of War' and won the 'All Other Bugs' category in the competition!

'Home Sweet Home', this image by Lee Frost took the top prize in the Bug Homes category and shows two different species of bee inside a bug hotel - including a Willughby's leafcutter (right) and Andrena bee (left).

Winning the arachnid category, this image dubbed 'Microspur' was taken by Lung-Tsai Wang and features a macro shot of an unnamed spider with lots of smaller spiders.

Simply dubbed Snail, this image by David Lain took top prizes in the Snails and Slugs category.

Some of the second place and runner up images were equally as stunning, including this image dubbed 'little ant' by Roger Mepsted, who took 2nd place in the Extreme Close-Up category?

Chris Ruijter named this 'Purple Haze' and used it to take 3rd place in the Flies, Bees, Wasps and Dragonflies Category.

This bug eyed digger wasp was the focus of the 2nd place winning image by Rory J Lewis in the Flies, Bees, Wasps and Dragonflies category

Mofeed Abu Shalwa captured this image dubbed 'Blue Longhorn Beetle' that didn't win but was shortlisted in the beetles category

Mofeed Abu Shalwa also captured this image named 'Ladybug inside the flower' that was shortlisted in the beetles category

Sara Jazbar's 'Aporia in infrared' took 3rd place in the butterflies and moths category

Simon Hadleigh-Sparks captured this image he called 'Speed Stripes' to take 2nd place in the mobile phone photography category.â¿¿Mobile Phone' category

Bence Mate captured this image called 'Tailored' to win 2nd place in the All Other Bugs category

Galice Hoarau's 'Wunderpuss' claimed 2nd place in the aquatic bugs category

Neil Phillips named his image "Large Red Damselfly Nymph" and used it to take 3rd place in the aquatic bug category

This menacing looking image isn't the cover of an alien invasion poster, but an image by overall winner Mofeed Abu Shalwa that one 3rd place in the Extreme Close-Up category

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