Insect Discovery Gifts

"I don't think you can call two ants a 'bug safari'."

"Tight......this isn't tight...now a New York City apartment......that's tight."

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

Support group therapy for male black widow spiders.

'What did one flea ask the other?' 'Shall we walk or take the dog?'

Dinner at the Trapdoors

Butterflies

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

Bee flying to another flower.

Garden pond: mosquito breeding ground

"Oh, puhleeese. No one's going to steal your idea."

'I'm an atheist!'

"No son of mine is going into entomology."

Bees v Wasps

"You'll build another bug collection in no time."

"Good lord, Billingsworth. You've stumbled onto the legendary Lepidopterist Graveyard."

Flies up the ante!

"Keeping busy?"

"Oh boy, by the way this guy is moving, we can assume he's got some of our friends in his pants..."

"You did order the chemical-free insecticide."

'I hate playing stinkbugs! Every time we press them on defense, they just let 'e rip!'

'So what if you found it? Whatever it is, it belongs to ME! Now, get off my beach!'

"Catching butterflies is fun!"

The social isolation of the entomologist: 'Most people just want to talk about killing 'em.'

'Alex we talked about this, you can't bring live things home from the lake. . . no buts, they don't want to leave the lake. Let your little friends go.'

Exotic Insects Arrive in England with Imported Fruit

"Would you like flies with that order?"

Visitation Day at the Bug Jar

'Honey, you can't keep running to Daddy every time you find a little bug or something in your pool!'

"They never told us what carrying twenty times our own weight would do to our knees."

'I tell you what: Thank goodness for tomato sauce...'