At one point in our lives, we always have the feeling that without bugs, this world would be a better place. Of course, if we did kill every insect living, we would disrupt the global ecology and probably eradicate our own species in the process. But who cares, at least there would be no more bugs. But, there are more insects in the world than just about anything else. For every person there are an estimated 200 million bugs.
Insects comprise eighty-five percent of all animal species.
From an evolutionary perspective, they are the most successful creatures on the planet. And they do help us. Perhaps, most peoples dark feelings about bugs stem from the pest species - cockroaches, mosquitoes, or flies. But short of killing off all insects, we should ask ourselves how we should solve the local bug problem. For example, ants at Sunday picnics, mosquitoes crawling over your arms, yellow jackets at our barbecues, and cockroaches in the kitchen.