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| | Indispensable Pests |
 | | They have inspired acres of prose, from eighteenth-century scholar René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur’s seven-volume encyclopedia of insects to Franz Kafka’s immortal story Metamorphosis, in which the unfortunate Gregor Samsa awakes one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed, in his bed, into a monstrous, buglike vermin. |
 | | Insects also have influenced musicians and artists: The Beatles named their band after an insect, and Catherine Chalmers, in her installation American Cockroach, turned tumbling roach antennae and wings into delicate collages. |
 | | Insects also have stirred the human imagination with the beauty of their bodily ornamentation, the charm of their songs, and their odd antics. |
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