Insects and Canaries People hate insects.  They bite, snap, sting, and kill.  Perhaps the most hated animal on the planet is the mosquito, despised for bringing malaria, dengue fever, sleeping sickness and a host of other fatal and disfiguring diseases.  The most frightening sci-fi film monsters from “Alien” to “Starship Troopers” are giant, intelligent insectoids.  […]