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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/velvet-worm-new-zealand-bug-of-the-year-winner

Only 24 hours left to vote for the Giant Springtails to win Bug of the Year!

If I haven't convinced you yet, perhaps this photo I took of one DEFENSIVELY BLEEDING will win you over. So metal.

We need every vote we can get, so please vote now: https://www.bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-2025/

#Invertebrate #TeamGiantSpringtail #BugoftheYear2025 #BugoftheYear #Entomology #Collembola

A photograph of a blue invertebrate covered in yellow spines, curled up and secreting two blobs of white blood from its head and back.

Only four days left in the Bug of the Year 2025 contest!

If every single one of my followers on here votes giant springtail RIGHT NOW, we'll easily beat the winner's votes last year!

Let's make it happen - we can't lose to the velvet worm in the last leg!

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

#TeamGiantSpringtail #BugoftheYear #Macrophotography #SoilBiodiversity #Enotomology #Invertebrate

A photograph of a giant springtail with purple spines, laying on its back with its legs in the air.

🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨

I know everything is a lot right now, but this is the LAST WEEK of Bug of the Year, and team velvet worm are hot on our heels!

Please VOTE NOW to make Giant Springtails victorious!

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

Here's the announcement:
IF WE WIN, I WILL GET A GIANT SPRINGTAIL TATTOO!!

#BugoftheYear #BugoftheYear2025 #Collembola #Entomology #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilEcology #Macrophotography

A photograph of a giant springtail viewed from above, crawling on a NZ one dollar coin. The springtail is blue with yellow spines, and in length is only about half the width of the coin.

It's on. Time to get your vote in for New Zealand Bug of the Year 2025.
#BugOfTheYear
https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/

Less than two weeks left to get your vote in for Giant Springtails in the Bug of the Year contest!

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

It only takes a moment to vote, and you can learn about some amazing critters while doing so. Consider it a nice momentary distraction from everything else that's going on.

#TeamGiantSpringtail #BugoftheYear #Entomology #MemeGiantSpringtail #Collembola #Invertebrate

A screenshot of Kiera Knightley from Love Actually saying 'They're all of me', and banner text above reading 'POV: Giant Springtails scrolling through my social media posts during bug of the year contest'.

🚨Colouring contest update🚨

The #TeamGiantSpringtail colouring competition has had some impressive submissions, well done to everyone who has contributed so far!

To help some local libraries get involved, I'm extending the deadline to 14th Feb - so there's still time to submit a romantic valentines springtail drawing!

Just download the template and have a go! Post your finished artwork on here with the tag #TeamGiantSpringtail and make sure you vote for the giant springtail in the contest!

Template here: https://www.bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Giant-Springtail-scaled.jpg

#BugoftheYear #Entomology #BugoftheYear2025 #SoilBiodiversity

A collage of images of coloured-in giant springtail drawings , with many brightly-coloured designs.

Jeff just got even sexier.

There's only four weeks left to vote for Giant Springtails to win the Bug of the Year contest. Let's get these tiny prehistoric marvels the public attention and conservation support they need!

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

#Invertebrate #TeamGiantSpringtail #Entomology #SoilBiodiversity #Collembola #BugoftheYear #BugoftheYear2025

A meme showing a scene from Jurassic Park, where Dr Grant and Dr Sadler are shocked to see a dinosaur for the first time, except the final window shows a shirtless Jeff Goldblum with a giant springtail for a head.

The competition is heating up for this years NZ #BugoftheYear competition.

@frankashwood is leading an excellent campaign for the charismatic if diminutive Giant Springtail. Some stylish free badges are celebrating this soon to be iconic NZ invertebrate.

And, yet, what is this? Sabotage!?

The bowl of giant springtail badges in our tea room are now mysteriously promoting the NZ praying mantis!

Will this cunning act sway the voters or backfire?
https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/

#entomology #insects #nz

Vote for the Frosted Phoenix moth for the New Zealand bug of the year! Rediscovered last year after 65 years. This species deserves an award! #NZ #moth #BugOfTheYear https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-2025/

A short break from #BugoftheYear content to share with you the delight that is Pauropods!

These tiny relatives of millipedes possess unique branching 'biramous' antennae, and feed on fungi and organic matter. They’re found in leaf litter, soil, and under stones and logs - but at <2 mm length you’ll struggle to spot them!

#Invertebrate #Myriapoda #Nature #Entomology #Macrophotography #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #SoilFauna

A photograph of a pauropod - an orange segmented relative of millipedes, with strangely branching antennae.

@jonty ahahahaha. Grandios. #bugoftheyear

He's right, you know.

Let's make Giant Springtails NZ's bug of the year, it only takes a moment to vote: https://www.bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-2025/

If you've already voted, then please help by sharing around!

#Invertebrate #TeamGiantSpringtail #Entomology #BugoftheYear #Collembola #SoilBiodiversity

A meme showing a male character from the US tv show Shameless lighting a cigarette, with text saying "nobody is too busy to vote Giant Springtail, it's just a matter of priorities".

Did you know that Bug of the Year and the New Zealand Poetry Society have introduced a #BugoftheYear Poetry Competition?

Anyone can enter a poem about the competition's nominees! To give you motivation, here's my poem about Giant Springtails, entitled 'A Small Kind of Giant'!

Deadline for submissions is 31st Jan - More info on how you can get involved and submit your poems here: https://www.bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/poetry-competition/

Good luck!

#BugoftheYearPoetry2025 #nzpoetrysociety #NaturePoetry #Entomology #TeamGiantSpringtail

For a little bit of joy amidst the gloom, I voted in New Zealand Bug of the Year 2025. You could too! https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/

My three votes went to:

1. Ngāokeoke (NZ Velvet Worm) https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/2024-bug-of-the-year-nominees/ngaokeoke-nz-velvet-worm/

2. Giant Springtail https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/2025-bug-of-the-year-nominees/giant-springtail/

3. Powelliphanta | Giant Ground Snail https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/2025-bug-of-the-year-nominees/powelliphanta-giant-ground-snail/

Thanks to @joncounts for boosting @frankashwood's springtail promos by way of encouragement 😊

#BugOfTheYear
#BugOfTheYear2025
#BugsAndCrittersOfAotearoa

I have it on good authority that the Giant Springtail is the current frontrunner in #BugoftheYear, so a huge thanks to everyone who has voted for it so far!

BUT it's still early days, and there's a month of voting left - so let's keep the momentum up! Vote here, if you haven't already: https://www.bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-2025/

Thanks to Amy Vaughan for being chief meme creator for #TeamGiantSpringtail. Stand by for lots more top quality content.

#BotY #bugoftheyear2025 #Invertebrate #Entomology #Nature #Bugs #Insects #Collembola

An edited image of Gollum from Lord of the Rings holding up a giant springtail, with text below reading 'My precious'.

Do you need a New Year's resolution that's quick, free, easy to achieve and makes a difference?

Then l've got one for you! Vote for Giant Springtail (Holacanthella) in the Bug of the Year contest! You can vote from anywhere in the world, just follow the link below!

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

#BugOfTheYear2025 #bugoftheyear
#TeamHolacanthella #Entomology #SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography

A photo of a giant springtail, and invertebrate with a soft blue body and lots of yellow spines on its back.

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