Quotes About Insects

Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana." —Unknown (often attributed to Groucho Marx)

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

The spiders, honeybees, yellow jackets, and mud daubers: these insects still speak - a language that is older than humans. The buffalo, elk, wolf, coyote -they still talk too. It's we, the people, who have forgotten how to listen. [Osage Spider Story, an Osage Legend, told by Archie Mason, Jr]

Don't wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies.

There are really only two things I'm terrified of: water and cockroaches.

I'm absolutely terrified of spiders.

I hate spiders; I'm terrified of spiders.

Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects

Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its universal and necessary reliability, then even human reason itself would be inferior to the unfailing and infallible instinct of insects.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

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?

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Omnivorous red devils with a vicious bite, they have denuded the ground surrounding their hill, destroying everything green and living within a radius of ten feet. I cannot resist the impulse to shove my walking stick into the bowels of their hive and rowel things up. Don't actually care for ants. Neurotic little pismires. Compared to ants the hairy scorpion is a beast of charm, dignity and

Campers: Nature's way of feeding mosquitoes.

This lucky little lady bug has landed here to stay To make my garden pretty and keep the weeds away.

It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.

Midnight bugs taste best.

Never hurt a ladybug We need them in the garden Ladybugs help flowers grow So we must give them pardon!