PROJECTS & AWARENESS-RAISING
We want to save insects and promote them sustainably. What originally began with a single question about the value of an insect has developed into an urgent rethink. We also want to anchor this change in awareness in society. For insect control, this means: reduce, ecologize and compensate!

A one-day rescue operation that mobilized an entire village on 1 September 2012 and led a fly to a wellness hotel with the world’s first flight ticket for an insect. The supposedly absurd action led to a radical change in the company – with the newly created INSECT-RESPECT product label as a sustainable result.
INSECT-RESPECT has been organizing the Day of Insects together with partners every year since 2017, already four times in Germany and twice in Switzerland. Representatives from business, politics, NGOs, science and civil society discuss and initiate insect protection measures together as a lobby for insects.
The Covid-19 pandemic called for new formats: As the Insect Day 2020 conference could not take place, INSECT-RESPECT decided to launch an online seminar series and bring the “lobby for insects” together virtually: Experts gave impulses, participants entered into dialog and learned about news from the insect world and got to know other committed people.
2017-2020 INSECT-RESPECT exhibited annually at the BIOFACH trade fair. Strikingly different stands were used to draw attention to insects. In 2019, for example, the stand was upside down – as if from the perspective of a fly on the ceiling.
To raise awareness of the value, benefits and threats of insects, Dr. Hans-Dietrich Reckhaus, the initiator of INSECT-RESPECT, regularly gives lectures at universities, meetings and conferences
