They are not just ugly and harmful
Some insects horrify you: you flee the buzzing of the wasps, the worms hidden in your flour reserves disgust you, you do not resist the need to crush a bug with your shoe. For others, they appear as charming little beings. “Time” tell you five love stories between renowned insects and humans.
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Is Sweden, July 30, 1987. A quarantine with short and blond hair is seated on a stool, bent over a binocular magnifying glass. During the previous days, she traveled the countryside around the village of Osterfärnebo in search of hemiptera – these so -called “half -winged” insects because their pair of anterior wings is partly reinforced by a corneal thickness, and partly membraneous. Ladybugs and cicadas are part of this rather discreet set of insects. But those who obsess the Swiss artist Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, and to whom she devoted all her life, they are the bedbugs, also called heteropters, of all species, shapes and colors.
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