Top six bugs nominated for 2025 ABC Australian Insect of the Year

Will 2025 prove to be the year of the dragon? Or is “beetle-mania” set to make a return?

A spectacularly patterned dragonfly and two very different beetles will vie with a slender-but-deadly mantis, a rowdy cicada, and a strange bug that flashes bright colours to ward off predators for the title…