I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to GET up at five o'clock in the morning and GO out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone ELSE got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to KNOW about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing.

Eating INSECTS is GOOD for the ENVIRONMENT and balanced diets.

A REFUGE is SUPPOSED to PREVENT what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving ACROSS boundaries. That's ABSURD.

I do not knowingly kill any LIVING THING - INCLUDING INSECTS or rodents - and I thank my FOOD for sustaining me.

In TEMPERATE zones, winter is the BEST insecticide; it KEEPS the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and ANIMALS.

I've ALWAYS FELT that specialization is BEST LEFT to the INSECTS.

I just can't GRASP the concept of sleeping OUTSIDE with INSECTS when I have a beautiful home with a really comfy BED!

There's no INSECTS in AMERICAN CUISINE? Not one? I don't THINK there are. That's so SAD.

In my YOUTH, I SPENT my TIME investigating INSECTS.

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets LIKE EARTH. SCIENCE fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the DENSE atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale ROBOTS and more.

Stories MIMIC LIFE LIKE certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I LOVE 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien CREATURES, creatures from a far-distant world. But basically, I figured out that I COULD find those alien creatures RIGHT on EARTH. And what I do is I study insects.

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.