Organizations like the Association des entomologistes amateurs du Québec fill a gap in data collection, as there are relatively few professionals in the field
found a reduction in the diversity of certain beetles, wasps and flies around Ottawa and Montreal in recent decades. Upcoming research by Mr. Larrivée will show a decline in butterfly diversity across North America over the past 10 years, he said.
Etienne Normandin leads a workshop on July 8 about how to mount insects in the Paul-Pirlot Pavilion at the Biology Station of the Laurentides. Alexandra Landry and Laurent Champeau-Lefournier prepare to mount a calyptratae."I'm working in a garden this summer, so I see this one all the time," says Landry.
But only 67 arthropods have been granted a protection status under the federal Species at Risk Act, which does not necessarily mean they are doing well. “The problem with insects is that, often, we don’t have enough data to be able to improve their conservation status,” said Flavie LeBlanc, a University of Montreal biology student who works with Mr. Normandin.
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