Abstract
BUT, ALAS, ALTHOUGH I HAVE ANSWERS, THESE ARE NOT THE ANSWERS THAT RESONATE WITH AN AUDIENCE PREDISPOSED TO EMPATHIZE WITH INSECTS. We are at an outreach event. Any outreach event. Could be an open house. Or the rodeo. Or a scout meeting. It doesn’t matter. They all unfold in the same way. We stand behind cases of brilliant butterflies and tropical beetles, ready to show off the sheen of the morphos’ wings, the antler-like tusks of a lucanid, the unexpected size of a tarantula hawk. We are happy. We even have a peanut-headed lanternfly! Entomology is glorious, of course. We are immersed in wonder. It is the best profession. And we—the staff and students of the University of Texas Insect Collection—are ready to sell it. We field questions about why cockroaches hiss, how bees make their honey, what’s up with all the ladybird beetles in the attic, and why so...
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