#bugOfTheYear2025

New Zealand’s bug of the year is an ancient worm that spits poison goo | CNN Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful.

#BugoftheYear2025 is now getting international media coverage!

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Congrats to Team Velvet Worm!

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Ancient worm-like creature that shoots slime crowned 'Bug of the Year' It is estimated to have been around in Aotearoa for 500 million years.

Velvet worm takes the crown! #BugoftheYear2025 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It's the LAST DAY to vote for Bug of the Year 2025! We are 370 votes away from reaching 10,000 voters this year! Can we reach the goal in the next 7 hours?!?

Learn more about the nominees here - and don't forget to vote!
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Happy Valentine's Day!

Learn more about the Exquisite Owlet here.
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Happy Valentine's Day!
Learn more about the Giant Springtail here:
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A photograph of giant springtail facing towards the camera. The springtail has a soft blue body with many long, soft orange spines covering it.

Less than 3 weeks left till #BugoftheYear2025 is over!

I'll go back to posting photos of other lovely soil invertebrates when voting closes... but until then it's gonna step up a notch!

Look at this little face and go vote Giant Springtail: bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...

#Invertebrate 🧪

Vote for the Frosted Phoenix moth for New Zealand's Bug of the Year! Raising like a phoenix from the ashes, this lovely little moth has recently been seen for the 1st time in 65 years. Celebrate it's return by making it NZ's bug of the year! #BugoftheYear2025 bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...

Photo by Vincent Baudraz of the NZ Blue Butterfly

https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/why-bug-of-the-year/ But promote it on Bluesky not the bad place

Can Australians nominate and vote?
Surely #bugOfTheYear2025 has to be the Blue Butterfly Zizina oxleyi 🦋
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