Insects, eh? Love them or loathe them, there’s no ignoring them.
There’s a lot more to insects than people think. Yes, they can be pests. It’s not pleasant to find yourself plagued by wasps and ants the moment you settle down to a picnic, and it can be downright horrible to turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night and see a cockroach scuttling for cover.
On the other hand, there’s more about a honey bee’s buzzing from flower to flower than the pleasantly soporific hum, or the mere mechanical production of honey. (Mmm, tasty insect vomit.) Did you know that if it weren’t for honey bees and other pollinating insects, the world would be suffering a severe shortage of fruit and veg?
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by David McMahon
by Theodore Koukouvitis