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State insect Binomial name Image Year Alabama: Monarch butterfly (state insect) Danaus plexippus: 1989 [1] Queen Honey bee (state agricultural insect) Apis mellifera: 2005 [2] Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly and mascot) Papilio glaucus: 1989 [3] Alaska: Four-spotted skimmer dragonfly: Libellula quadrimaculata: 1995 [4] Arizona: Two ...
Endangered (EN) species are considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction inside. In July 2017, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 343 endangered insect species. [1] Of all evaluated insect species, 5.7% are listed as endangered. The IUCN also lists 21 insect subspecies as endangered.
Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday proposed protecting the striking long-distance migrators under the Endangered Species Act after dramatic population drops.
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This is a list of species named endangered by the Missouri Department of Conservation, [1] which are not necessarily on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is not comprehensive. It is not comprehensive.
The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers.
Many insects are in worse shape than monarchs and bumblebees, but when a big flagship species we care about is declining, it gets people's attention. It really indicates that something is happening."
Between 950,000–1,000,000 of all described animal species are considered insects, so over 50% of all described eukaryotes (1.8 million species) are insects (see illustration). With only 950,000 known non-insects, if the actual total number of insects is 5.5 million, they may represent over 80% of the total, and with only about 20,000 new ...