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Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful.
The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the vagaries of bug fans worldwide.
Almost 25,000 votes were cast by some 9,000 people worldwide, who were asked to choose just three favorites from a list of 21 nominees including maggots, ants, crickets and flies.
After New Zealand, the highest number of votes came from North America, Europe and Australia – with…
