New Zealand’s Bug of the Year competition has crowned an ancient, bizarre, and surprisingly savage predator as its 2024 ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor ...

It’s hoped that through competitions like Bug of the Year, greater awareness will be brought to velvet worms and other bugs ...

New Zealand made an unexpected decision of choosing an ancient worm as the winner for an international competition.As ...

A recent study has identified 16 new-to-science species of grasshoppers living in the deserts of the U.S. and Mexico. One of ...

The results are in, and New Zealanders have crowned the ngāokeoke (New Zealand velvet worm, Peripatoides novaezealandiae) the 2025 Bug of the Year. The whē (New Zealand praying mantis) came second, ...