Can we save the insects? For centuries, humans and bugs battled for supremacy over the world and its crops. Now, scientists say, we must learn to coexist with these tiny creatures.
Missing! Millions of our best friends
SOS: The world as we know it would grind to a halt without insects. Glossary
Ecological - Relating to the environment.
Kent - A county in south east England.
Pesticides - Poisons used for destroying insects and plants.
Microplastics - Microplastics are fragments of degraded plastic that are less than five millimetres in length. They are blown into the atmosphere and transported by ocean currents.
Ecosystems - Complex networks of living things that rely on each other to survive.
Food chain - The living things that are connected because each group eats the group below it.
Amphibians - Cold-blooded vertebrate animals such as frogs, that live on land and in water.
Reptiles - An animal with dry scales or hard plates on its skin. Most reptiles lay eggs with soft, leathery shells. Lizards and crocodiles are reptiles. They are cold-blooded, meaning their blood temperature changes, depending on the air or water around it
Rewild - Restoring land to its natural state before human intervention.
Native - A person born in a specified place, or a plant or species indigenous to an area.