Quotes About Insects

Corruption, in these bugs, is splendid.

Taphonomy—the arrangement or relative position of the human remains, artifacts, and natural elements like earth, leaves, and insect casings—is one of the most crucial sources of information to a forensic anthropologist at a crime scene.

Sitting just a foot or two away from a bloody body, Bill would soon find even himself overrun with flies, seeking any moist bodily fluids to feed on, any dark, damp orifices (including Bill's nostrils) to lay their eggs in. He quickly learned to wrap netting around his head to keep the flies out of his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

The warrior priests worship insects as sacred beings, and believe that the ingestion of insects ennobles man and keeps him from descending into bestiality.

While ruthlessly aggressive toward other species, they are also unusually cooperative with their own kind. Ants from neighboring nests don't fight, as with other species,

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

You know the animal that kills the most people in the world? The Hepatitis Bee.

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

The day is early with birds beginning and the wren in a cloud piping like the child in the poem, drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe. And the place grows bean flower, pea-green lush of grass, swarm of insects dizzily hitting the high spots; dunny rosette creeping covering shawl ream in a knitted cosy of roses; ah the tipsy wee small hours of insects that jive upon the crippled grass blades and the face of the first flower alive.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity, and the sense of being of importance among the insignificant was enough to restore to Miss Bart the gratifying consciousness of power.

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

I'm not afraid of cockroaches.

I started collecting crickets to study them. Now I expect they will be my companions for many years to come.

The lethal dose of honey bee venom in humans is around 19 stings per 2.2 pounds (1 kg) of body weight or about 1,300 stings for a 150-pound (68-kg) person.