- Intro “Insects and Nature Management”
Frederik HENDRICKX (RBINS)

Drowning by numbers: general trends of insect decline

- Three major causes of insect decline and how to deal with it
Henk SIEPEL (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

- Measuring the number of insects: past, present and future perspectives
Theo ZEEGERS (EIS, The Netherlands)

Nature management and the conservation of threatened insect communities

- Integration of entomological knowledge in nature management: opportunities, practical considerations and caveats
Tim Faasen (Ecologica, The Netherlands)

- What can we learn about 40 years of research on heathland management?
Thomas NEYENS (UHasselt - LIKONA)

- Colonization of dragonflies after wetland restoration
Jorg LAMBRECHTS (Natuurpunt)

- Effects of nature management on the moth fauna using marshes as an example
Wim VERAGHTERT (Natuurpunt)

- Colonization of threatened spiders and carabids in the recently created dunes and saltmarshes of the Yzer estuary
Wouter DEKONINCK, Frederik HENDRICKX and Léon BAERT (RBINS)

Conservation of targeted insect species

- Update on the in situ and ex situ conservation of the Lord Howe Island stick insect”
Mark Bushell (Bristol Zoo Gardens, UK)

- Metapopulations and their importance in nature conservation - a case study on the Large Scabious Mining bee (Andrena hattorfiana) in Flemish Brabant
Pieter VANORMELINGEN (Natuurpunt)

- The digger wasp Bembix rostrata and nature management in the Belgian dunes
Femke BATSLEER (INBO)

Integrating insect conservation in policy frameworks

- How can improving Natura 2000 Network management benefit insect conservation?
Marta Cálix (IUCN)