Species diversity

A small selection

Here are 125 common insect species from the evergreen forest in Sweden. Together they constitute less than 0.5 % of all insect species in Sweden, estimated at about 33,000.

Seen them before?

Some of the insects in the showcase are very small, barely visible. Actually, most insects in nature are very small. Probably, you have never seen them and you will never see them, unless you rummage through mosses and other crevices, and look carefully in a magnifying glass.