This is my collection of writings for the three hundred and sixty five day writing challenge - where one has to write something daily, every day, for one whole year, based on the prompts provided - as part of an exercise to improve creative writing...
Or as Wiki enlightens me ~ "Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Definitions and circumscriptions vary; usually, insects comprise a class within the Arthropoda. As used here, the term Insecta is synonymous with Ectognatha. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans."
Okay, so despite humans being determined to wipe out all lifeforms, we still occupy only 10% of the life forms. Guess, we have to eat humble pie. Anyway on to the topic, which I think I am going to ramble about.
My knowledge does not extend to many of the insects:
Cockroaches- eeek, they are absolutely disgusting, creepy crawly creatures and I shudder writing about them - are one of the longest surviving insects, I am sure they will survive even when all the other life forms are wiped out. Enough of them, again,eeek.....
Butterflies - pretty and somehow use a lot in symbolism, could be on account of their bright colourful wings and the fact that it is a fat ugly caterpillar that transforms into a gorgeous butterfly. In fact, this insect is so popular that there is a theory named after it (In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state - meaning that a small event like a butterfly flapping its wings can cause phenomenal change).
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Lady bugs - cute red and black beetle, immortalised in a nursery rhyme.
Dragonflies - I loved to catch them as a kid, though my parents hated it and would warn me, saying it was not correct to harm them. I brushed them off, 'oh, such old fashioned parents, always looking out to spoil our fun' Luckily, I outgrew that phase pretty quickly and am now quite ashamed how my acts.
House flies - are a pest. I am not going to bother finding out if they are indeed beneficial, for they are irritating as well.
Mosquitoes - how come evolution favours them, still?
Crickets - noisy little insects, but then I do not mind them, in fact, I like their chirps, it is a reminder of warm summer nights, when we would sit in the balcony, the lights switched off, soaking in the garden fragrances and the sounds of the night.
Ants - red and black, large and small, ticklish and stinging ones, ambivalent about them, though not about their stings (it hurts...)
Moths - few and far in our lives, a drab cousin of the butterflies. But equally fascinating to humans, especially its inability to resist the flames (how many romance stories draw on this though science says that that the moths are more disoriented by the light rather than be attracted to the flame)
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Fireflies - those tiny bulbs of light, a real pretty sight.
Bees - buzzing, pollinating honey bees (there is a word - bombinating - making that buzzing noise) Their sting is worth the honey?
And that is all I can recall of insects, offhand. Which are the ones that come to your mind?
