Conservation initiatives carried out by informed, enthusiastic participants can be highly effective in conserving biodiversity, including the biodiversity of insect pollinators. It is important to understand how the public perceives insect pollinators, as it may have implications for the success of conservation initiatives and the initiation of protective policies.

We used Ireland as a case study to determine how insect pollinators, pollination services, and pollinator decline are currently perceived by the public in an effort to understand the links between public knowledge and perceptions of pollinators, the implementation of insect pollinator conservation actions, and engagement with existing conservation initiatives. We designed a survey that was available to the Irish public for three months, distributed primarily through social media, and was taken by 613 participants.

Findings indicate that people are aware of insect pollinator decline and of the main causes and are willing to participate in pollinator conservation, but that there are still some key gaps in the overall understanding of pollinators, their role, and their ecology. Most participants were able to identify charismatic pollinators, such as bumblebees and honeybees, and were aware of their importance to the pollination of crops and wildflowers. Fewer participants were able to identify other common pollinators, such as flies and solitary bees, and many were not aware of the importance of non-bee pollinators to pollination. While engagement with Ireland's national pollinator conservation initiative was linked with increased knowledge of Irish pollinators, less than 50 % of participants, particularly urban dwellers and those without post-secondary education, had heard of the initiative.

To ensure a more inclusive approach to insect pollinator conservation, we recommend that future engagement measures highlight the importance of underrepresented non-bee insects to pollination services and target certain demographic groups that are currently not as actively engaged in pollinator conservation as others.

由知情，热情的参与者执行的保护举措可以在保护生物多样性（包括昆虫授粉媒介的生物多样性）方面非常有效。重要的是要了解公众对昆虫授粉媒介的看法，因为这可能对保护计划的成功实施和保护政策的实施产生影响。

我们以爱尔兰为例，确定了公众当前对昆虫授粉媒介，授粉服务和授粉媒介衰退的看法，以了解公众知识与授粉媒介看法，昆虫授粉媒介保护行动的实施和参与之间的联系。与现有的保护措施。我们设计了一项调查，该调查向爱尔兰公众开放了三个月，主要通过社交媒体分发，共有613名参与者参加。

研究结果表明，人们知道昆虫传粉媒介的数量下降和主要原因，并愿意参与传粉媒介的保护，但是在对传粉媒介，其作用和生态的整体理解上仍然存在一些关键差距。大多数参与者能够确定具有魅力的传粉媒介，例如大黄蜂和蜜蜂，并意识到它们对农作物和野花授粉的重要性。较少的参与者能够确定其他常见的传粉媒介，例如苍蝇和单蜂，并且许多人不知道非蜜蜂传粉媒介对授粉的重要性。虽然与爱尔兰国家授粉媒介保护计划的参与与对爱尔兰授粉媒介的了解增加有关，但不到50％的参与者，

为了确保采用更加包容性的方法来保护昆虫授粉媒介，我们建议未来的接触措施应强调代表性不足的非蜂类昆虫对授粉服务的重要性，并针对目前未积极参与传粉媒介保护的某些人口群体。