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National Insect Week returns in 2020

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What is National Insect Week?

National Insect Week encourages people of all ages to learn more about insects.

Every two years, the Royal Entomological Society organises the week, supported by a large number of partner organisations with interests in the science, natural history and conservation of insects.

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News

Great Bug Hunt 2019 winners announced
THE YEAR OF THE FLY
Insect Isles Project
Great Bug Hunt 2018 winners announced
Photography Competition launched

Did you know?

Most sophisticated communicators

The honeybee waggledance can communicate the distance and direction of a good patch of nectar flowers.

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