Tiny, Puny, Pestilential. Apart from a few exceptions like bees and butterflies, insects have a definite image problem. Zoologists may respect them as the most successful class of anthropoids, but to most people they are just bugs, menacing nuisances to be swatted or stepped on.

The New York Times Book of Insects, Introduction (p. 1), The Lyons Press. Guilford, Connecticut, USA. 2003