[1][2] The EVK is known in particular for a study it conducted, published in PLOS One in 2017, that demonstrated a 75 percent decline in flying insect biomass in 63 nature reserves in Germany between 1989 and 2016.

[5] Based in a former school in Krefeld's Marktstraße, the EVK has around 50 members, many of them hobbyists, who, according to Gretchen Vogel in Science, "have become world experts on their favorite insects".

One member, Siegfried Cymorek, who did not graduate from high school, was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1979 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich for his research into the woodboring beetle.

[2] The society is a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie (German Association for General and Applied Entomology).

[6] The society is noted for a study it conducted, first published in 2013, in which it examined data from malaise traps in 63 nature reserves in Germany, most of them in the Krefeld area.