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I love insects. They are amazing.
The weary August days are long;
The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall.
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
A centipede the size of a Pontiac had once lived in the bottom-right corner of the trunk but had long since moved on once he realized that no one was ever going to bother him, so he could stand up on his hind hundred feet, hiss like a pissed cat, and deliver a deadly bite to a naked foot.
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
Maggot, I'm going to pull a rabbit out of your hat!
Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.
Mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.
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.
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.
C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)
Cockroaches, Ari. Humans are like cockroaches." Crag nodded his head, his eyes twinkling.
Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet!
A bush-warbler,
Coming to the verandah-edge,
Left its droppings
On the rice-cakes.
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
That?" I glanced back to the door where JT had disappeared. "That was Genus Homo, species Whowantstofuckus, subspecies Closeted Headup Hisassia. Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals."
Jacob "Yasha" Livingston
Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.
Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
To a good approximation, all species are insects.
You're hungry.
The beast glared.
STAY OUT OF MY MIND, INSECT.
was a parasite with nasty teeth,
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?
Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
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.
The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how
usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.
Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").
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:
The mosquitos are so big they eat you alive wear your shoes.
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt ...
There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].
Ayden saw me and his body slumped. "Oh, thank God." "Please," Matthias said. "I told you she's too hard to kill." "Aww," I said. "Thank you." Matthias offered me a sweet smile. "Just like a cockroach."
A little roving, solitary thing.
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
you had sex with a viper,
Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.
What is a bird if it can't fly? It might as well be a cockroach.
The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.
Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them.
The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
With golden treasures load his little thighs,
And steer his distant journey through the skies.
It's a Magril - a bird that's native to Gillikin Country. It spends half its life as a beetle, and when it's an adult, it goes to sleep for a year and wakes up as this majestic creature."
"Kind of like a butterfly."
"Kind of like you," he said.
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!
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.
Cockroach: What is war?
Man: How we lost the human race.
Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects
red-hot fireflies
The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
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.
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.
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 GRACKLE
The
Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. I am tickled and twitched all over. Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels.
Be the cockroach
a misbegotten cockwaffle.
The insect-youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon!
I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.
It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
Barking spiders!
Wolf-Spiders Ruleth the Land
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.
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.
This morning I'm a mosquito, now you're a flying cart? Arosia
They're disgusting. Those papery wings and their stupid bug bodies ...
These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you had to admire. We were hopelessly outnumbered, but we still slapped and kicked and karate-chopped ourselves until we reached an uneasy truce.
From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged relentless war against the diligent ants, furtive roaches, adventurous spiders and misguided beetles that constantly infiltrate the human domicile. For
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects ...
If you stand a lantern under a tree every insect in the forest creeps up to it - a curious assembly, since though they scramble and swing and knock their heads against the glass, they seem to have no purpose - something senseless inspires them.
The fly that no one to advise it follows the corpse into the grave.
When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.
The sentries might not be the most alert, but they might have marked a skulking, five-shoe tall grasshopper.
What has crawled up your butt and died? (Tabitha)
The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him
I've told you before, Daniel: roach isn't an insult. We're the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we're the ones with the stripped-down OS's so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We're the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.
Are you to be an individual, a trespasser in territory none else has had the wit or nerve to explore, or just another troublesome mosquito to be swatted by the authorities?
The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.
A maggot is just another life form.
Fireflies ... They'll follow you wherever you like, as long as you're polite to 'em.
It's a jolly little junior vermin!
Flies are the dead man's revenge.
Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes
In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.
How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.
The termites have got me.
What may look normal to a spider , will look like a chaos to a mosquito.
I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn.
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.
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
A small insect, clearly suffering from acute depression, decided that my open mouth was the ideal route for a suicide mission. With kamikaze-like determination, it rocketed down my throat and splattered against my tonsils. - Calma Harrison
You foul evil little cockroach!
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
He was furious. He wouldn't let me bury them. It didn't matter. There was no way to dig up the deckplates. He dried up the snow. He brought the night. He roared and sent locusts. It didn't do a thing; they stayed dead. I'd had him.