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Insects nurture and protect us, sicken us, kill us. They bring us joy and sorrow. They drive us from fear to hate, then to tolerance. At times they bring us up short to a realisation of the way the world really is, and what we have to do to improve it. Their importance to human welfare transcends the grand battles we fight against them to manage them for our own ends. Most of us hate them, but some of us love them. Indeed at times they even inspire us.
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