How Many Insect Species Exist?
We have compiled a lot of different insect facts and interesting information into some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQS) about insects that you will find anywhere! There are many more kinds of insects on earth than there are of any other kind of living creature! Insects have the greatest number of individuals living of at any one time. It is estimated that there are approximately 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive. There are 1,017,018 species of insects in the world with some experts estimating that there just might be as many as 10 million species out there. That means you could spend your whole life looking at different kinds of insects and you’ll never be able to see them all. It’s hard to imagine, but 95% of all the animal species on the earth are insects! There are so many insects with different insect characteristics we had to limit our insect facts to the top 100 most interesting insect facts . To give you an idea just how many insec
