News Headline
The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’
Source
Guardian (International Edition)
Publication Date
2021-07-26
I have been fascinated by insects all my life. One of my earliest memories is of finding, at the age of five or six, some stripy yellow-and-black caterpillars feeding on weeds in the school playground. I put them in my empty lunchbox, and took them home. Eventually they transformed into handsome magenta and black moths. This seemed like magic to me – and still does. I was hooked.