Pond skater insects thrive on the River Aller on National Trust Holnicote Estate, Exmoor, Somerset on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, where the very first attempt at scale to create a more natural, diverse and resilient wetland and landscape in the UK will help tackle impacts of climate change such as flooding and drought. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)





A dragonfly rests on a twig at Marina bay east park in Singapore on September 4, 2023. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





Peacock butterfly as seen feeding on a summer lilac in Maastricht, Netherlands on September 6, 2023. Aglais io, the European peacock or the peacock butterfly, is a colourful butterfly, found in Europe and temperate Asia as far east as Japan. It was formerly classified as the only member of the genus Inachis. The butterfly has a wingspan of 50 to 55 millimetres, while the base colour of the wings is a rusty red, and at each wingtip it bears a distinctive, black, blue and yellow eyespot. The underside is a cryptically coloured dark brown or black. There are two subspecies: A. io caucasica found in Azerbaijan, and A. io geisha, found in Japan and the Russian Far East. The plant Summer Lilac, the Buddleja davidii or butterfly-bush, or orange eye, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae, native to Sichuan and Hubei provinces in central China, and also Japan, while it is widely used as an ornamental plant, and many named varieties are in cultivation. Buddleja davidii has been designated as an invasive species or a “noxious weed” in a number of countries in temperate regions, including the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and New Zealand. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A macro view of a salticidae, or jumping spider, in Maddaloni, Caserta, Italy on September 13, 2023. (Photo by Vincenzo Izzo/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A lady bug steps across the leaves of a plant in a communal garden on June 13, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The European Parliament is scheduled to soon vote on the EU Nature Restoration Law, a bill that would set legally-binding targets for the restoration of natural ecosystems across Europe with the goal of strengthening food security. The bill also sets targets for reducing the use of pesticides and reversing the decline of pollinator populations such as bees. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)





A small mint moth on the leaves at Caversham Court Gardens in Berkshire, UK on August 4, 2023. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A male carpenter bee flies at a park of Tokyo on April 27, 2023. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Eastern Yellowjacket Wasps (Vespula maculifrons) eat apples that have fallen from an apple tree in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 09, 2023. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A butterfly lands on a lavender at a garden before the harvesting season in Ankara, Turkiye on July 17, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Abdullah Kurtar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A bee gathers pollen on a blooming branch of a apple tree in a garden outside the city of Sabac, Serbia on April 20, 2023. (Photo by Andrej Isakovic/AFP Photo)





A Hercules beetle, one of the largest species of its kind, in seen at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve, in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, on May 23, 2023. In the Monteverde cloud forest, dense fog among the lush vegetation is increasingly rare and temperatures are increasing each year due to climate change. (Photo by Ezequiel Becerra/AFP Photo)





A speckled bush-cricket (Leptophie puctatissima) is pictured in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in northern France on August 3, 2023. (Photo by Joel Saget/AFP Photo)





A comma butterfly rests on slender verbena flowers in Berkshire, Taplow, United Kingdom on September 15, 2021. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A grasshopper stands on the tarmac at Melsbroek Military Airport in Melsbroek, Belgium, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (Photo by Virginia Mayo/AP Photo)





A European firebug (Pyrrhacoris apterus) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on October 22, 2021. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)