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I love insects. They are amazing.

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

I love all kinds of insects, and I've heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.