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'Insectageddon!' 'The Great Insect Die Off!' 'Mass Insect Extinction!' So screamed recent headlines. But are the world's insects in trouble...or not? And
how can we know, when we know so little about them? We desperately need invertebrates, but do they need us? DID YOU KNOW? It is estimated there are 5.5 million insect species, both known and
unknown, not including other arthropods. But only approximately one million insect species are actually known and described. SOURCE: Stork, N. How Many Species of Insects and Other
Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?; _Annual Review of Entomology_; Vol. 63:31-45, September 2017 _(This program was first broadcast on May 20, 2018)_ GUESTS _DR CASPAR HALLMAN _
Institute for Water and Wetland Research Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands _PROFESSOR ARY HOFFMANN _ School of BioSciences Bio21 Institute University of Melbourne _DR MANU SAUNDERS
_ University of New England _DR KEN WALKER _ Senior Curator of Entomology Melbourne Museum Museums Victoria MORE INFO _MANU'S BLOG, ECOLOGY IS NOT A DIRTY WORD _ _THE WILD POLLINATOR
COUNT – GET INVOLVED! _ _MORE THAN 75 PERCENT OF DECLINE OVER 27 YEARS IN TOTAL FLYING INSECT BIOMASS IN PROTECTED AREAS _ Hallmann et al, PLoS ONE 12(10), 2017 _MINIBEAST HEROES_