Extraordinary Insects

“There are more than 200 million insects for every human being living on the planet today. As you sit reading this sentence, between 1 quintillion and 10 quintillion insects are shuffling and crawling and flapping around on the planet, outnumbering the grains of sand on all the world's beaches. Like it or not, they have you surrounded, because Earth is the planet of the insects.”

Wow. I never thought about it like that, but the truth is that people just think they run Earth...but, no, Sverdrup-Thygeson is right: Earth is the planet of the insects.

Sverdrup-Thygeson goes on to propose that insects are not only prolific, but that they are also extraordinary. The book is dedicated to that proposition; the author will share a thousand ways that insects are extraordinary. You will finish this book nodding your head in agreement.

Quite fun for anyone who loves nature.