A bee covered with pollen sits on a sunflower in Lower Saxony, Germany on September 2, 2019. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/dpa)





A pale tussock moth (Calliteara pudibunda) larva or caterpillar just after moulting on heather on Hankley Common, Surrey, England on April 30, 2019. (Photo by Gillian Pullinger/Alamy Stock Photo)





A cicada rests on a pine tree during the heat of summer in Valbonne, south of France, 05 July 2019. The cicadas are insects typical of the south of France, especially in Provence. (Photo by Sébastien Nogier/EPA/EFE)





A swarm of painted lady butterflies land on a Carolina cherry tree as they migrate north from Mexico through Encinitas, California, U.S., March 14, 2019. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)





A bumblebee draws nectar from the flowers of a Sorbaria sorbifolia bush in a garden outside Moscow on June 22, 2019. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A Butterfly lands on Lavender flowers in Cape Town, South Africa, 19 August 2019. Lavender attracts butterflies as its flowers with their wonderful perfume and color are attractive to many beneficial insects and provide necessary nutrients for wildlife. (Photo by Nic Bothma/EPA/EFE)





Bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weiskirchen, Germany on July 4, 2019. (Photo by Boris Roessler/dpa)





A coreidae is pictured on top of a flower in Dhading, Nepal on June 30, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A photo taken with a macro-lens of lubber grasshoppers on a leaf in Karura forest in Nairobi, Kenya, 21 August 2019. (Photo by Daniel Irun​gu/EPA/EFE)





Redheaded pine sawfly larvae devour evergreen needles in Massachusetts, US. (Photo by L.A. Faille/Alamy Stock Photo)





A VanesSa braziliensis butterfly is pictured at the San Martin square in Buenos Aires, on September 18, 2019. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP Photo)





A butterfly sits on a tree in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 24, 2019. (Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)





A bumblebee covered with pollen sits in a hibiscus flower in a garden in Bornheim, Frankfurt, Germany on July 19, 2019. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa)





In this Thursday, July 25, 2019 photo, a grasshopper rests on a wall outside California Pizza Kitchen in downtown Summerlin in Las Vegas. A migration of mild-mannered grasshoppers sweeping through the Las Vegas area is being attributed to wet weather several months ago. (Photo by Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP Photo)





A bee collects nectar from the flowers of a blooming Japanese cherry blossom (sakura) tree at the Stadtpark in Vienna on March 22, 2019. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP Photo)





A horned beetle in Quezon City, the Philippines, November 2019. (Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Media)





English-born chequered skipper butterflies are flying in the country for the first time in more than 40 years as part of a conservation project. Once-extinct butterflies introduced from Belgium last spring have successfully bred in Rockingham Forest, Northamptonshire, with their English-born young now in flight. (Photo by Andrew Cooper/PA Wire Press Association)





Two grasshoppers mating at night in Spain. Scientists say light pollution is a significant but often overlooked driver of the rapid decline of insect populations. (Photo by Pedro Luna/Alamy Live News)





A male bicoloured striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens). (Photo by Clarence Holmes Wildlife/Alamy Stock Photo)





A fungus weevil (Eurymycter fasciatus) explores the surface of a dead tree in West Harrison, New York state. (Photo by Clarence Holmes Wildlife/Alamy Stock Photo)