The annual celebration of insects is this year focussed on encouraging interest and wonderment at our ailing friend, the bee

How Insect Are We? is the title of the symposium that opens Pestival, a three-day festival starting today and running to 6 September to celebrate insects in art, and the art of being of an insect.

80% of creatures on earth are bugs – that's more than a million insect species – without whom humans would survive. Yet insects are frequently misunderstood, reviled or, at best, ignored by the majority of the human population. Pestival aims to challenge stereotypes about insects and ...

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