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What would English literature look or sound like if there were no insects? What if someone were to ransack the literary past, taking away all the references that poets have made to crickets, grasshoppers, beetles and bees?
A ‘great and merciless thinning:’ the vanishing world of insects
Imagining the disappearance of species (however small they are) should spur us to fight for their survival.
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