Abstract: Based on habitats of insects in Shapotou area the insect fauna can be divided into three groups: Shifting sands area(S), artificial vegetation area(M), and agricultural reclamation area(A), Tennebri-onidae is predominant species in S area; Curculionidae, Pyralidae, Chrysopidae, and Acridiidae were predominant species in M ares;Scarabaeidae and other many families insects were chief species in A area, analysis of insects fauna showed that there were a swarm of Orgyia ercae occurred by chance in M area,these insect lived on Hedysarwm scoparium which is not impotant during the processes of artificial vegetation succession. Therefore, controlling the development of H. scopareum in artificial vegetation system could transform the insect fauna in Shapotou area.