{"id":3703,"date":"2012-10-17T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp\/2012\/10\/17\/esc-photo-contest-results-are-in\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T21:44:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T21:44:42","slug":"esc-photo-contest-results-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/2012\/10\/17\/esc-photo-contest-results-are-in\/","title":{"rendered":"ESC Photo Contest results are in!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The results of the Eighth Annual ESC Photo Contest<\/strong> have been announced!\u00a0 Judges Kirk Hillier, Kenna MacKenzie, and Rick West faced a difficult task, selecting the winners from among 67 high-quality entries.<\/p>\n

The top seven selection will be printed on the cover of all issues of Volume 145 (2013) of The Canadian Entomologist<\/strong>.\u00a0 The photos were chosen primarily for their composition and quality, but judges also tried to spread the winning entries across insect orders, and to have no more than one winning photo per photographer. The final results are:<\/p>\n

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First Place: Bob Lalonde, \u00ab\u00a0Halictid on fireweed\u00a0\u00bb. A female Agapostemon sp. (Halictidae), foraging on fireweed in June on the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Second Place: Ward Strong, \u00ab\u00a0Stinkbug eggs\u00a0\u00bb. Stinkbug eggs found on the foliage of lodgepole pine, Tappen BC.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Third Place: Julian Dupuis, \u00ab\u00a0Papilio larva on Artemesia\u00a0\u00bb. Larva of Papilio machaon dodi (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), on Artemesia dracunculus, near Drumheller, AB<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fourth Place: Crystal Ernst, \u00ab\u00a0Stratiomys badia\u00a0\u00bb. An impressive bee mimic, Stratiomys badia (Stratiomyidae) rests in a garden at dusk, in Chesterville, Ontario.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fifth Place: John McLean, \u00ab\u00a0Honeybee Drone pupae\u00a0\u00bb. Late stage pupae of the honey bee Apis mellifera L. dissected as part of a search for breeding varroa mite (none found). Taken from a hive in the Gisborne area on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, March 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sixth Place: Tim Haye, \u00ab\u00a0Pachycoris klugii nymphs\u00a0\u00bb. Nymphs of Pachycoris klugii on Jatropha cucras tree (Tehuacan, Chiapas, Mexico).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Seventh Place: Christa Rigney, \u00ab\u00a0Dakota Skipper on Yarrow\u00a0\u00bb. A gravid female of the Threatened Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) perched on Yarrow, Achillea millefolium (L.) (Asteracea) in a tallgrass prairie northeast of Deleau, Manitoba<\/p><\/div>\n

A slideshow of all of the beautiful photographs entered in this year’s Competition is now displayed on the ESC Website, here<\/a>.<\/strong> Congratulations to the winners!!!<\/p>\n

If you missed this year’s competition, don’t fret! There is still time to submit your own images to another ESC-sponsored photo contest! ESC (or other regional society) members attending this year’s Joint Annual Meeting in Alberta have until October 30th to get their best shots of the year in to the judges of the 2012 JAM Photo Contest<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you one and all for your participation, and keep those shutters clicking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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