The IUCN Red List is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s biodiversity. An estimate of 3.4 million insect species live on Earth with most of them in tropical regions. 6 Ways You & Your Kids Can Save Endangered Insects.

ZSL has been involved in a number of conservation projects aimed specifically at the UK’s smaller inhabitants, including the red barbed ant, fen raft spider, and field cricket. See more ideas about Insects, Endangered, Beautiful bugs. That means if we keep going the way we are, it could lead to the extinction of 40% of insects over the coming decades. Bee Part Of It, a BBC project supported by wildlife presenter Kate Humble, is encouraging people across the UK to create local bee-friendly spaces. Members of two groups of insects have been placed on the official "red list" of endangered species. Wildlife.

In the United States, 48 insects are listed as endangered and threatened by U.S. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data … In February a separate report found that more than 4 per cent of insect species are declining and a third are endangered. If insects go extinct at a similar rate as some other life forms, then about thousands of species could have disappeared over the same time period.
How to support endangered insects in your garden A global review found that countless insects – including many butterflies, moths, bees and beetles – could be headed towards extinction . The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. More than 30 British insect species have been newly classified as in danger of extinction, due to pollution and habitat loss. Insects are so small that a single tree can be home to hundreds of kinds, some boring into the bark, others tunneling into the leaves, still others feeding on the roots. Research showed 35 out of 283 species of leaf beetle were of concern to conservationists. We live alongside billions of insects here on planet Earth, but a new study estimates a third of them are at risk.
So the recent decline in the number of bees is a cause of global concern. Insects are disappearing at a rate of 2.5% a year. This is a list of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species.Some suffer because of loss of habitat, but many are in decline following the introduction of foreign species, which out-compete the native species or carry disease.. See also the list of extinct animals of the British Isles.. Some of the UK’s insects and spiders are highly endangered.