This photograph shows a hoverfly, a flying pollinator insect also called syrphid, at the Parc Floral in eastern Paris on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Martin Lelievre/AFP Photo)





A bumblebee flies next to a sunflower in Berlin, Germany, 21 August 2025. (Photo by Filip Singer/EPA)





A female Black Swallowtail Butterfly lifts off from a wildflower growing in the yard of a residence in Sioux City, Iowa on Sunday, August 17, 2025. (Photo by Jerry Mennenga/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A common blue butterfly in the south Shropshire, UK meadow on September 7, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Fusek Peters/South West News Service)





A Meadow butterfly rests on a bramble leaf in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, UK on July 25, 2025. Some spotters have seen an increase in butterflies this year. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A boxwood moth, box tree moth, on a boxwood twig in a garden in Malmö, Sweden on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Johan Nilsson/TT via Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Japanese grasshopper, a pest, carves on a Taro leaf in Tehatta, West Bengal, India on August 16, 2025. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A bordered orb-weaver spider rests on a leaf in Kent, UK on July 22, 2025. Orb-weaver spiders are known for building the classic, wheel-shaped webs often seen in gardens. (Photo by Tom Iwasyszyn/Picture Exclusive)





A bumblebee flies next to a sunflower in Berlin, Germany, 21 August 2025. (Photo by Filip Singer/EPA)





A colony of Giant Red Bugs (Macrocheiria grandis) sits in a row on coconut leaves and lime tree leaves and trunk, on April 1, 2025 in Assam, India. The species is also known as red ghoul face stink bug. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A green jumping spider (Lyssomanes viridis), in a forested area of Cerro de la Muerte, in San Jose, Costa Rica, 20 May 2025. International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated every 22 May around the world. (Photo by Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA/EFE)





Close up on an Asian Hornet (Vespa Velutina, Frelon Asiatique) in Rosny Sous Bois near Paris on March 2025. Researchers at University of Exeter, UK warn many of the hunted species by Asian Hornets are important crop pollinators.The Asian hornet, or yellow-legged hornet, a voracious invasive, is native to south-east Asia. It arrived in France in a cargo of pottery from China about 20 years ago and spread rapidly across the continent. (Photo by Geyres Christophe/ABACA Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Rose Chafer beetle shares a Dahlia flower with the bees on a sunny afternoon at Greys Court in Oxfordshire, UK on July 7, 2025. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An American dog tick, also known as a wood tick, climbs through tall weeds while searching for a host in Oregon, US on July 2, 2025. This species is a carrier of diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia, though transmission is relatively rare in the Pacific north-west. (Photo by Robin Loznak/Zuma Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Fulvous Forest Skimmer (Neurothemis fulvia), a dragonfly species found in Asia, is perched on an iron grill in a house in Telhatta, India on April 6, 2025. Aesthetically, it appears as though the insect is part of the grill. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)