🚨GIANT SPRINGTAIL COLOURING CONTEST!🚨

Lily Duval has created this wonderful colouring page -
I want you to fill it with your wildest colour schemes and post it with the hashtag #TeamGiantSpringtail.

The best one (as judged by me) will win a free giant springtail photo print! No age categories - young or old, just have a go!

You can vote for the giant springtail to win Bug of the Year 2025, and download the colouring-in page file here: https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/2025-bug-of-the-year-nominees/giant-springtail/

Contest closing date will be 31st Jan.

#Entomology #BotY2025 #BotY #Collembola #SoilBiodiversity

Hey! Have you voted for the giant springtail yet?

I've set up a webpage with FREE digital wallpaper downloads as an incentive/thank you for supporting the giant springtail in this year's Bug of the Year contest: https://www.frankashwood.com/boty2025

You can vote here: https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-2025/

#Entomology #SoilBiodiversity #Collembola #Macrophotography #Invertebrate #BotY2025

REJOICE, FOR THE SEASON IS NEARLY UPON US!

Nope, not Christmas... but the New Zealand Bug of the Year contest '25, of course!

Voting opens on Jan 1st, and I'm going to need all of your votes to win giant springtails the epic victory they deserve. Stand by for further instructions, and some exciting incentives to lend them your vote!

More info, including an only slightly awful poem I wrote about them, here: https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/2025-bug-of-the-year-nominees/giant-springtail/

#BotY2025 #BugOfTheYear #BugoftheYear2025 #Collembola #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Macrophotography #Invertebrate