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Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed.
Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?
Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world.
Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical.
Yes. Then they eat them
Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot be got rid of by any amount of cleanliness. Many careful housewives take their beds to pieces every week and put carbolic acid on them.
I was really interested in collecting insects.
Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.
First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.
We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species this relation is often broken:
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.
dropping spiders
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
Deathwatch. That's a kind of beetle, it buries carrion. I
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
Fireflies Hey, fireflies! Fly higher, guys! Fly high above this place. Till a sky rise is a wire's size. Then fly off into space. I catch stupid bugs in jars but you're not bugs you're baby stars!
What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.
I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
A flat black bug, that is London.
I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles' ... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.
Shit, I forgot. This time of the afternoon the bar's probably shut. Half the staff has gone sick again. Mono, I think. Well, let's go look anyway; we might be lucky. We can't go up to my room
it's full of bugs.'
Which kind?'
Both.
Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in human carpets, in our beds, on our food, floating in the air, in fact, they are omnipresent.
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.
Flies trouble us not by their strength but by their multitudes.
You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
I wonder what ants do on rainy days?
worms and bugs. They climbed up the
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
which will enable either a human or an automatic operator to control the insect's movements remotely and to absorb and transmit information.
Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.
It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality - a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death.
Recent estimates suggest there are at least two million tropical insect species and perhaps as many as seven million.
We don't give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!
In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.
Flies are the price we pay for summer.
Barking spiders!
Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.
Ants are a curious race
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills.
How could anyone presume to know the world through the eyes of an insect?
Bugs have always loved me.
THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER.
Cockroaches, Ari. Humans are like cockroaches." Crag nodded his head, his eyes twinkling.
There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].
Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.
Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.
A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his glove. The insect was hideous: black and bulbous, with barbed legs and a massive skull-like head. Its carapace gleamed like oil.
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.
The mosquitoes were a formidable enemy, coming in thick clouds so dense as to be almost palpable, obscuring each man's vision of those near him. The insects buzzed and whined around them, clinging to every part of their bodies, getting into ears and nose and mouth.
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day?
The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of flowers, and the sun glinted on the threads of caterpillars which hung from the trees as thick as rain. "By," said Gwyn, "there's axiomatic.
Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.
i do not see why men
should be so proud
insects have the more
ancient lineage
according to the scientists
insects were insects
when man was only
a burbling whatsit
The warrior priests worship insects as sacred beings, and believe that the ingestion of insects ennobles man and keeps him from descending into bestiality.
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.
The appearance of a pest should be regarded as a warning from Mother Earth to put our house in order.
Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed.
There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.
Butterflies are trapped first, before they are free.
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.
Human beings are psychologically far more afraid of bugs than they are of driving a car, whereas people get killed by cars every single day, and there is hardly ever a story of people getting killed by bugs.
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.
Flies are the dead man's revenge.
Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.
Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.
People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.
In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.
Ants are driven by fear.
We should have a definitive total for insects in a little over fifteen thousand years.
Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?
They thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves
I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.
Monstrous shiny black beetles the size of goats unfurled their wings, writhed and festered at the very top of the sharp rock formation.
Flies conquer the flypaper.
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don't know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there's a leaf or two it'll be represented.
Do ants get headaches?
That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.
Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
The ants are my friends- they're blowing in the wind
Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.
red-hot fireflies
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
Do flies trapped in amber scream?
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.
Butterflies ... flowers that fly and all but sing.