Arthropod

"Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crawlin ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre gauze an lace; Though faith! I fear ye dine but sparely On sic a place."

"The midges wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."

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

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

"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 good approximation, all species are insects."

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

"[M]osquito control can be a two-edged sword. ...the WNV spraying coincided with the loss of ninety percent of the lobster population, about eleven million lobsters, in the waters of the Long Island Sound. Other s, such as s and , also died in great numbers. It is likely that the next generation of crustaceans was poisoned as well by insecticides leaching into the sound. For all their apparent differences, lobsters, crabs, starfish, and mosquitoes are all arthropods, and so vulnerable to the same toxins."

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

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

"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."

"The spiders touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line."