The Independent Blog: Stop Bugging Me! Or is it time to reconsider our relationship with insects?

Buzzing in your ear, crawling over your skin, coiled in your boot or lying drunken in a woozy cloud of rotten apples. It takes a particular personality to appreciate the virtues of our six and eight-legged neighbours. Invertebrates; the be-fanged, haired, spiked or suckered beasties, are the making of horror films and the base of …