Now picture lunch without apples, love without orchids, forests piled with wood and dung lying everywhere. That's what would happen if the world had no insects, says Michael Ivie, associate professor and curator of entomology at Montana State University-Bozeman.
Insects are the basis of a lot of food webs and animal communities.
It's not a different car. It's not a car at all. MSU entomologists pondered the value of insects as the Department of Entomology geared up for Bug Fest 2000, which was held April 10-15 and drew more than 5,800 visitors. The services given free by pollinators and decomposers and biocontrollers is probably equal to the entire economy of the world. It's a massive amount of services they are providing.