"The hive chooses," is the disarming answer of William Morton Wheeler, a natural philosopher and entomologist of the old school, who founded the field of social insects.
Given their massive populations and, as the famed entomologist E.O. Wilson writes, their "unity of purpose [and] social machinery," it's no surprise that ants are also bonafide masters of war.
"The best way to start is to try it once," the entomologist insisted.
Other experts, such as eminent Harvard entomologist E.O. Wilson, told participants at the UNESCO conference that extinctions could go as high as 50 percent.
Professor Arnold van Huis, an entomologist at Wageningen University in Belgium and the author of the draft, said eating insects has advantages. “There is a meat crisis,”he said.
"That was the straw that broke the camel's back," says David Pimentel, also an entomologist at Cornell.
And some deep urge in humankind, what entomologist Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University has called "biophilia," may draw people to other living things.
It was not until a year later when Mr Kobylinski went for a beer with medical entomologist Andrew Haddow from the University of Texas while on another trip to Senegal that they had a breakthrough.
Professor Arnold van Huis, an entomologist at Wageningen University in Belgium and the author of the UN paper, says eating insects has advantages.
"But that never happened," said Ambrose, a professor and entomologist at North Carolina State University and apiculturist, or bee expert.
Ted Schultz, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, said the ant database was "really valuable."
"I'm an entomologist," Wheeler said, "and there is just something inherently interesting about a plant that eats insects." (See pictures of other carnivorous plants.)
From the shape of the insect, Michael s. Engel, an entomologist at the University of Kansas, identified it as a mayfly, one of the first groups of flying insects.
Certain medieval theologians — who puzzled over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin — would have had a field day with this picture by retired entomologist Klaus Bolte of Canada.
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