Don’t follow the caterpillars in Spain
Humans in general do not have
a very happy relationship with creepy-crawlies. Most of us have a default
assumption that creepy-crawlies are “nasty”, in the sense of probably in some
way damaging to plants, fabrics, our structures, or our skin or worse.
There is something else as
well. We can more or less anthropomorphise (and therefore think we understand)
other forms of animal life, even dangerous predators (for example, sharks as
psychopathic stalkers), but insects seem profoundly alien, especially those
that do indeed do us harm.
