Monarch butterflies make an impressive swarm, but their numbers are falling rapidly Steve Nicholls
Alien Worlds
Steve Nicholls (Head of Zeus)
IT IS the dizzying transitions of scale that best characterise our complex relationship with insects. Zooming in, we peer with ghastly fascination at parasitoid fairy flies, which are small enough to parasitise not the bodies but the eggs of other insects. Zooming out, we gawp at the 10 million-odd insect species – and marvel that the total weight of the Amazon rainforest’s ants is about four times the combined weight of all …
