Quotes About Insects

Moths and butterflies are not the same thing. Moths sneak around in the dark munching your sweater and are ugly. Butterflies hand out with flowers in the daytime and are pretty. Never mind any facts or what silkworm moths are responsible for, or what poisonous butterflies do.

Fall has arrived and has already begun to put everything into a deep sleep; flies and other insects have suffered their first setback, and up in the trees and down on the ground you can hear the sounds of struggling life, puttering , ceaselessly rustling, laboring not to perish.

gigantic spiders

How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I enjoyed introspection, shrouded myself in cogitation; with what rapture did I listen for the rustling of frail insects in the thickets of my nerves!

You're not afraid of spiders, are you?" "I tend to get slightly arachnophobic when they're three times the size of me.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

Lily was thrilled about the weather. Post-rain is the best time for her to catch insects so I suspect I won't see her all morning. "Come on!" Sasha says. "Let's be the first ones there so we get to pick our own teams." No one moves. Even Lily is already up and out today. Post-rain is the best time for her to catch insects so I suspect I won't see her all morning.

Butterflies are a cold-blooded species. That's why in the country you'll often see them sitting in the middle of the road. Try not to hit them with your car! (The butterfly does not survive this process.)

The blue, mosquitoey night pushes in from the hotel windows.

Aliens—if they exist—are little green men with big eyes and spindly arms or…or giant insects or something like a lumpy little creature." Daemon let out a loud laugh. ET?" Yes! Like ET, asshole. I'm so glad you find this funny.

If the earth was restful and good to those who loved it, the villagers contaminating it like vermin, those human insects battening on it's flesh, were enough to disgrace it and blight any approach to it.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...

When bumble-bees in solemn flight

My bugs don't have bugs.

The gutters in the lane overflowed with an odd, languid grace. Water filled the lane; rose from ankle-deep to knee-deep. Insects swam in circles. Urchins splashed about haphazardly, while Saraswati returned from market with a shopping-bag in her hands; insects swam away to avoid this clumsy giant. Her wet footprints printing the floor of the house were as rich with possibility as the first footprint Crusoe found on his island.

yeast produce esters in order to attract insects, hoping they will pick up the yeast and move it around. This makes bugs unwitting accomplices in the dance between sugar and yeast.

I love insects. They are amazing.

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

Since I was a little girl, I've collected ladybugs. Not real ones - I never had a weird ladybug farm!

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

A century after its introduction, Eucalyptus stelloleta, a tree planted worldwide for lumber and ornamental purposes, supports only one species in California but 48 species of insects in its Australian homeland according to D. Strong and colleagues.

On average, native plants support thirteen times more caterpillar species than non-native plants.