Lucas Bustamante / Treehopper (Alchisme onorei) with eggs Papallacta, Napo, Ecuador

MYN / JP Lawrence / Flag-footed bug (Anisocelis flavolineata) Gamboa, Panama Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Gil Wizen / Shield bug (Ventocoris falcatus) Central Coastal Plain, Israel Meetyourneighbours.net project

Pete Oxford / Big-legged Bug or Squash Bug (Coreidae) on Heliconia Flower. Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. South America

Nigel Cattlin / Giant water bugs (Lethocerus indicus) in plastic bag, at market. Bangkok, Thailand.

Nick Upton / Common pond skater / Water strider (Gerris lacustris) pair mating on the surface of a garden pond, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Nick Upton / Common pond skater / Water strider (Gerris lacustris) standing on the surface of a garden pond, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Nick Upton / Two male Common pond skaters / Water striders (Gerris lacustris) compete to mate with a female on the surface of a garden pond, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Duncan Murrell / Ocellated shield bug (Cantao ocellatus), Deniyaya, Sri Lanka.

Nick Upton / Common pond skater (Gerris lacustris) standing on the surface of a garden pond before skating off at speed, with many colonial Green algae (Volvox) spheres moving below the surface, Wiltshire, England...

Nick Upton / Green shield bug (Palomena prasina) positioning itself to sun on Philadelphus leaves in a garden, Wiltshire, England, UK, April.

Rod Williams / Rhopalid bug (Rhopalus subrufus), Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, England, August