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Alien Worlds evaluation: Celebrating Earth’s bugs – as they disappear

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Monarch butterflies make a powerful swarm, however their numbers are falling quickly

Steve Nicholls

Alien Worlds
Steve Nicholls (Head of Zeus)

IT IS the dizzying transitions of scale that finest characterise our complicated relationship with bugs. Zooming in, we peer with ghastly fascination at parasitoid fairy flies, that are sufficiently small to parasitise not the our bodies however the eggs of different bugs. Zooming out, we gawp on the 10 million-odd insect species – and marvel that the entire weight of the Amazon rainforest’s ants is about 4 instances the mixed weight of all …



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