Interactions in our lives our limited to products. We only see the results, effects of things in the world. Process is overlooked: how did this get here, who brought it, what was involved in making it? We usually don’t know, don’t care, or maybe a bit of both. We just consume. Yet, we don’t realise that what we unknowingly consume every day, is effects of non-human entities’ actions. For their own purposes, tiny superheroes, insects are continually working behind the scenes of the products we engage with in the everyday. However, the conversation between the expert and the public eye is lost. Insects are mostly looked at and studied by entomologists. They have become a field of interest, a hobby or a profession. The rest of the world has been distanced from them, limited to lack of knowledge or even negative reaction to them. As the specimens are locked up in drawers, kept behind behind the closed doors of the archive in any museum, so is our knowledge of their impact to the world.  We all know about the bee, bringing us honey and pollinating flowers giving us life. But what about the house fly pollinating rapeseed? What about the worms oxygenating our soil? We need to somehow open up the dialogue for the exchange of this information.

 

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