500 Insects

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I have now photographed and uploaded 500 different species of insect to this site. Try to take in these facts about insects, they are quite astounding to comprehend:

• There are more than 200 million insects for every human being living on the planet.

• There are between 1 and 10 quintillion (can you imagine that number? I can’t) insects which are surrounding us in almost every environment on Earth.

• Insects account for well over half of all of all multicellular species.

• Insects come in around a million different variants.

• Around 479 million years ago insects appeared on the planet, long before the dinosaurs, and long before us.

• Insects developed flight 400 million years ago, which means they had total air dominance for more than 150 million years.

• Insects have survived 5 mass extinction events.

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So there we have it: The Earth belongs to the insects. And they will be around long after we have gone on our way. So enough text … and now for some photos I have taken of these amazing and most fascinating six-legged creatures:

Red-legged Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes)

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Berberis Fusehorn (Arge berberidis) female

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2-spot Ladybird (Adalia bipunctata) larva

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Little Nomad Bee (Nomada flavoguttata) female

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Pellucid Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens)

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Grouse Wing (Mystacides longicornis)

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Hairy Spider Weevil (Barypeithes pellucidus)

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False Cacao Moth (Ephestia woodiella)

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German Wasp (Vespula germanica)

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Peacock (Aglais io)

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Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum) female

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Roesel’s Bush-Cricket (Roeseliana roeselii)

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For those that may be interested you can visit my Insects page ‘here’.

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