Quotes About Insects

Run." Raven took off, Apple on her heels, screaming as a swarm of flying, crawling, leaping insects chased them. "Aah!" Apple screamed. "Aah! I mean, La la la!" Apple sang desperately. "LA LA LA LA!

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together

Just where does self-awareness begin and end? With the June bug? With the shining, task-ridden ant? With the little cloud of gnats that drifts over the pond?

On top of its other charms, the maggot breathes through its ass. It

They live like rice, too, pressed together: a moist, solid entity. If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse (and this I truly don't recommend), you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound: "Rice Krispies." Ron frowns. Ron used to like Rice Krispies.

Albert Ken-rich Fisher's 1900 "Summary of the Contents of 255 Stomachs of the Screech Owl" made me feel tired and sad, though also vaguely festive, owing to the author's "Twelve Days of Christmas"–style presentation: "91 stomachs contained mice … 100 stomachs contained insects … 9 stomachs contained crawfish … 2 stomachs contained scorpions …" Droppings provided a kinder, less taxing alternative.

The great success of ants and termites – between them they may comprise one-third of all the animal biomass of land animals – is undoubtedly down to their division of labour.

Barre a un lado a esos parásitos de academia subsidiados, que viven de las ganancias de la mente de otros y proclaman que el hombre no necesita moral, ni valores, ni código de conducta. Esos, que se consideran científicos y aseguran que el hombre es sólo un animal, al que no conceden en el mapa de la existencia el lugar que le han concedido al más insignificante de los insectos.

We command the fire and the serpents and the stinging insects, but we cannot wield the power that sends fever away.

This was a living flow, like a pulse through veins, with the cells bursting and renewing themselves as they went. The sudden vision filled her with strong emotions that embarrassed her, for fear of breaking into sobs as she had in front of her in-laws that day when the butterflies enveloped her. How was that even normal, to cry over insects?

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

Buenas noches. Don't mind the roaches.

Gradually she got used to seeing men come and go: a race of childish giants, resembling clumsy mammoth insects, fleeting and yet weighty; an army of awkward fools who tried to flutter with leaden wings; warriors who believed that they had conquered when they were despised, that they possessed when they were ridiculed, that they had enjoyed when they had barely tasted; a barbaric horde, for whom she nevertheless waited lifelong.

Toutes ces filles lui paraissaient d'étranges fleurs, artificieuses, s'appliquant à attirer par une débauche de parfums et de couleurs des essaims d'insectes féconds.

Although their maneuverability is limited, blind flies can fly remarkably well.

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

Parfois lorsque je me promène en été, je m'aperçois que j'ai failli marcher sur une espèce de mouche. Je la regarde mieux : c'est une reine fourmi. [...] Combien de cités furent ainsi anéanties, d'un simple coup d'essuie-glace sur une route d'été ?

Chez les fourmis, l'éjaculation tue le mâle. Chez d'autres espèces c'est la femelle, qui, une fois comblée, massacre son bienfaiteur. Tout bonnement parce que les émotions lui ont ouvert l'appétit. Il faut se rendre à l'évidence : l'univers des insectes est globalement un univers de femelles, plus précisément de veuves. Les mâles n'y ont qu'une place épisodique...

Les fourmis présentent cette formidable opportunité de nous permettre de voir une société fonctionner, une société composée de plusieurs millions d'individus. C'est comme observer un monde. Il n'existe pas à ma connaissance de ville de plusieurs millions de lapins ou de souris...

Nos ancêtres avaient un mot pour qualifier ces ennemis. Ils les nommaient les forces chtoniennes. Les insectes représentent les forces chtoniennes, c'est-à-dire tout ce qui est bas, rampant, souterrain, caché, imprévisible !