Insects that rival man.

Abstract

Somewhere about three-quarters of a million kinds of insects are known to science. They are also more numerous than all other animals put together, so that it has been said, and with good reason, that they are really a dominant type of life on earth at the present time. We can claim, it is true, that we can protect ourselves against the more noxious varieties and make commercial use of others—for example, the honey bee and the silkworm. But the degree of protection achieved is woefully incomplete.