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Insect Week returns in 2022

What is an insect?

Why are they important?

What is an entomologist?

Let's Go Live - Insect Special

Weixiang Lee, Planthopper nymph with the 'fibre optic' tail. Specially Commended in National Insect Week 2018 Photography Competition.

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Libellula depressa

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INSTAR magasine cover with article titles and a burnet moth on a yellow flower

Instar Magazine

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Male feather-horned beetle on a stick, with close-up of its claw, by Kerry-Ann van Eeden. Specially Commended 2014 NIW Photography Competition Small is Beautiful category.

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Do you have an insect to identify? Contact our entomologists for help.

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Insect Isles logo, an illustration of a yellow dragonfly, over a green silhouette of the British Isles, surrounded by grey silhouettes of different types of insects

Insect Isles

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Ilustration of a girl by a rock with plants and a pink damselfly

Ento-Club Comic Book

Meet Natasha, the travelling entomologist! She loves insects, and would like to share her wisdom with you!
Garden Entomology Cover with image of and text about stag beetle

Garden Entomology booklet

The Royal Entomological Society’s Introduction to Insect Science.

What is Insect Week?

Insect Week encourages people of all ages to learn more about insects.

The Royal Entomological Society organises the week, supported by a large number of partner organisations with interests in the science, natural history and conservation of insects.

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News

Insect Week 2022 dates announced
Great Bug Hunt 2021 winners
Insect Week is here
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Insect Week 2021

Did you know?

Parasitoids & parasites

A parasitoid lives within a host and ultimately kills or sterilises it, a parasite simply lives off its host's resources.

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