Why Conserve Insects? Surely there are plenty of them around, after all you see hundreds of them all the time in the fields and woods is a typical non-entomological response to the idea of 'Insect Conservation'. The fact is it is just not true anymore, there are far less insects around now than at anytime since mankind has been on this planet.

There are however many reasons. On a general level, the diversity of life on this planet is part of what makes it so great to live on, reduce the diversity and you reduce the pleasure of every life…

We human beings get all sorts of generally unnoticed benefits from insects, the aesthetic appreciation of their beauty gives us pleasure. The study of insects has been of invaluable in helping us come to understand the world we live in and insects have, and still do play, a very important role in medical research and the curing of many diseases.

No aspect of your life is unaffected by insects in some way. As you would expect of an animal group that contains over ¾ of the species recorded on the planet, the economic importance of insects is immense.