Insect Investigator Gifts

Support group therapy for male black widow spiders.

"Uh oh, we've landed near a nest ... Hand me the bug spray."

Insect Evolution Research Lab. Eureka! I've found the root of all weevils!

Girl stung by a wasp for the first time

"The teacher told us about evolution today. So Dad, why did our ancestors choose to evolve into dung-beetles instead of, for example, cheesecake-beetles?"

When kindergarten projects go seriously awry.

'Let's follow her next time she leaves the hive.'

'What do they mean 'is borer a beast of the field'?'

'You reported a large cat stuck in your tree, madam?'

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

"I know what I look like. But I'm an atheist, and I reject your theocentric nomenclature."

"Poppy has left the dog kennel. I repeat Poppy has left the dog kennel...Yes, yes, we have a code brown!"

"Everybody back. . . Minefield!"

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

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

Dinner at the Trapdoors

Bee flying to another flower.

Garden pond: mosquito breeding ground

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

"You've got termites. The good news is I gave them all little phones to keep their minds off doing any damage."

'It's a deal. You don't infect me, and I don't infect you.'

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

"No son of mine is going into entomology."

Bees v Wasps

Viral Pathology Center (janitor finding three dead bodies)

"Keeping busy?"

Science Books. Do you have any books about Lepidoptera? Yes, and would you like to join "The Book of the Moth Club"?

"You did order the chemical-free insecticide."

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

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

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

"Would you like flies with that order?"

'You've got me all wrong, baby. I don't want to touch your sweater...I want to eat it.'

Of course he hasn't grown wings yet – You carry him everywhere.

Selective pesticide - to kill only ugly insects (and not butterflies and ladybirds).