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Insect species (IUCN, 2016.1) 5993 extant species have been evaluated; 4291 of those are fully assessed [a] 3144 are not threatened at present [b] 1146 to 2848 are threatened [c] 59 to 105 are extinct or extinct in the wild: 58 extinct (EX) species [d] 1 extinct in the wild (EW) 46 possibly extinct [CR(PE)] 0 possibly extinct in the wild [CR(PEW)]
State insects are designated by 48 individual states of the fifty United States. Some states have more than one designated insect, or have multiple categories (e.g., state insect and state butterfly, etc.). Iowa and Michigan are the two states without a designated state insect.
Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
According to the site itself, BugGuide.net has been responsible for the identification of 11 new, previously undescribed species as of mid-2014. In addition, 12 species new to the Western Hemisphere were first identified via the site; another seven were new to North America; and numerous new country records (primarily the United States) and ...
In 2010, a summer surge of insect bites blamed on the Blandford fly required many who had been bitten to be treated in a hospital. [ 8 ] The New Zealand "sandflies" are actually black flies of the species Austrosimulium australense and A. ungulatum .
The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect. [1]This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.
Beetle collection at the Melbourne Museum, Australia. Insect collecting refers to the collection of insects and other arthropods for scientific study or as a hobby. [1] Most insects are small and the majority cannot be identified without the examination of minute morphological characters, so entomologists often make and maintain insect collections.