Can we save the insects? For centuries, humans and bugs battled for supremacy over the world and its crops. Now, scientists say, we must learn to coexist with our tiny brethren.
Missing! Millions of our best friends
SOS: The world as we know it would grind to a halt without insects. Glossary
Old Testament - The first part of the Christian Bible, and is mainly based on the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh).
Locusts - Locusts are a type of grasshopper. They are found worldwide. They sometimes gather and fly together in huge groups called swarms. A locust swarm can cause great damage to trees and crops.
Voracious - Wanting or eating great quantities of food.
Pesticides - Poisons used for destroying insects and plants.
Thorax - In humans, the middle part of the body below the neck and above the waist. In insects, the middle section of the body of an insect.
Abdomen - The tummy or midriff.
Biomass - The total weight of a set of organisms (although the word is also used to describe a kind of energy production in which plant and animal remains are used as fuel).
Microplastics - Microplastics are fragments of degraded plastic that are less than five millimetres in length. They are blown into the atmosphere and transported by ocean currents.
Dwindle - To gradually become smaller, fewer, or weaker.
Amphibians - Cold-blooded vertebrate animals such as frogs, that live on land and in water.
Charismatic - Having an outgoing and charming personality.
Decomposition - The process of natural things breaking down.