Arthropods

“Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crawlin' ferlie? On sic a place.”

“Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out,Would we but yield them to thy bitter need.”

“What gained we, little moth? Thy ashes, From deep to deep, are but a death more slow.”

“Farming insects creates just 1 percent of the greenhouse gases generated by farming an equivalent mass of beef or pork.”

“Insects, being so small, do not have oxygen-carrying bloodstreams. What little oxygen their cells require can be absorbed by simple diffusion of air through their bodies. But being larger means an animal must take on complicated oxygen pumping and distributing systems to reach all the cells.”

“An inordinate fondness for beetles.”

“Thou art a female, Katydid! Do Katydids drink tea?”

“"Every flying insect that uses four legs for walking shall be avoided by you. The only flying insects with four walking legs you may eat are those with knees extending above their feet, [using these longer legs] to hop on the ground. Among these you may only eat members of the red locust family, the yellow locust family, the spotted gray locust family and the white locust family. All other flying insects with four feet [for walking] must be avoided by you.”

“Al Azif [...] that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos’d to be the howling of daemons.”

“To a good approximation, all species are insects.”

“Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, And the eldest was born half an hour ago.”

“A work of skill, surpassing sense,He form'd this gnat who built the sky.”

“The midge's wing beats to and froA thousand times ere one can utter "O."”

“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”

“In an evolutionary instant about 540 million years ago, there was an explosive diversification of multicellular animals. It is called the Cambrian explosion... Most of the major groups of marine animals, except fishes, appeared at that time, including sponges, echinoderms, and, most notably, arthropods.”

“To a first approximation, all multicellular species on earth are insects.”

“Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.”

“Empowering rural women can significantly increase productivity, improve rural livelihoods and reduce hunger and malnutrition.”

“We work in a high malnutrition area, where children are not [culturally] supposed to eat eggs or meat, so there’s not a lot of protein available. Insects’ nutritional values are particularly relevant for pregnant women and small children.\t”

“Happy the Cicadas live, since they all have voiceless wives.”