The National Insect Expo provides an overview and focal point of our understanding about terrestrial insects and related invertebrate groups, and undertakes to provide a highlighted community awareness to help elevate the profile and utility of invertebrates in conservation management.

Insects and all related invertebrates, are the dominant faunal group in most terrestrial habitats. They play important roles, often incompletely understood, in maintaining essential ecosystem services.

Despite the enormous environmental changes in Australia since European settlement, and despite the lack of information about how these changes effect the native invertebrate fauna, it is not too late to include invertebrates in the management and restoration of native habitats throughout the country.

This important conservation message is the primary goal of the National Insect Expo.