by Alex Binck Now for the bad news. While it’s hard to assess the conservation status of a tiny group of insects almost no one notices or pays attention to, for the few species that have been assessed, such as bumblebees, the trend is one of precipitous decline. Some species which were common only a few decades ago have vanished almost entirely and, until recently, no one had noticed. How many of our 4000+ species are now facing a similar fate? No one knows. So what are we to