Quotes About Insects

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

There's so many mysteries related to how flies are able to make their way through the world. I'd certainly like to know a lot more about how their brain works. I'd certainly like to know a lot more about just how they're put together. I mean, these animals are basically, topologically, spheres. They don't have bones as we do, of course.

I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.

I don't like spiders, man, just because they are sneaky - they just really scare me. They are hairy - ugh.

I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.

I don't like big spiders in the house.

Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be big problems. I'll spend the rest of the day feeling like I'm being terrorised by this missing spider.

I'm very nervous of snakes. I think it's something about the movement. I'm not a huge fan of spiders either.

It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see that as one of the scariest things ever. And then also, I'm really not a fan of spiders and bugs.

Spiders - hate 'em.

I'm petrified of spiders, I've just never liked them.

I don't have a love for spiders.

It would be an idyllic tropical paradise if not for the malaria, the insects, the constant diarrhea and resulting hemorrhoids, and the fact that the people are dirty and smell bad and eat each other and use human heads for decoration.

Between 1 and 10 quadrillion ants live on (and in) Earth

FIREFLY SONG Flittering white-fire insect! Wandering white-fire bug! Weave little stars about my bed! Weave little stars into my sleep! Come, little dancing white-fire bug! Come, little flitting white-fire beast! Light me with your white-flame magic, Your little star-torch. Ojibwa

I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'

I always have multiple ladybugs around because they're lucky, and they're good for flowers and the environment.

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

This was a leap forward in computing—or it would have been, if not for the moths. Because vacuum tubes glowed like lightbulbs, they attracted insects, requiring regular "debugging" by their engineers. Also like lightbulbs, vacuum tubes often burned