The mission of The Entomological Foundation is to enhance human, animal, and plant well-being by creating safe ways to manage insect pests, maintaining biodiversity, and promoting new scientific knowledge through entomological research and education.
Most insects are essential in our ecosystems.
However, many of the earth's species including insects have been lost or have become extinct. This disruption of ecosystems can have a major on your community such as outbreaks of pests and pathogens and losses in soil, agricultural products, forests, medicines, and other resources your community relies on. Insects destroy roughly one-third of the food and fiber we produce and transmit some of the most harmful pathogens to plants, animals, and humans. However, insects pollinate many valuable food and forest crops and significantly increase the productivity of soils and are important components in most food chains. Currently, more than 60 percent of all the species in the world's rainforests are insects-many are essential for sustaining the environment and providing a safe food supply.