Quotes About Insects

began to be aware of the tremble of insects as they played their instruments underneath the stems, down at the very base of the heat.

She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people still quoted at parties: "And I presume on the eighth day God called you and said, 'I changed my mind about insects!

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

All of the species that have attained eusociality, as I have stressed, live in fortified nest sites.

eusociality, the most advanced state of social behavior

Hubo extracción de hombres. Vi la raíz morada del augurio. Vi a los insectos libando el llanto, vi sangre en las iglesias amarillas

The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

When God, the Great Mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.

A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

30. Insects The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious creature does not belong with ordinary insects...

Nothing is more unlovely than a fly, and it properly belongs in the list of infuriating things. Flies aren't big enough to make them worth bothering to hate, but just the way they settle all over everything in autumn, and their damp little feet when they land on your face … And I hate the way the word is used in people's names.2

Dozens of species of insects give virgin birth. Crayfish give virgin birth. Some honeybees give virgin birth. And Komodo dragons - yeah, those big lizards give virgin birth, too. Jeez, one human gives virgin birth and that jump-starts one of the world's greatest religions. But when a Komodo dragon gives virgin birth, do you know what it's thinking? It's thinking, 'This is Tuesday, right? I think this is Tuesday. What am I going to do on Wednesday?

What is that?" – Abigail "Wasps…A shitload of them." – Sasha