Extraordinary Insects

Facilitator: Sidna Rachid, 970-215-9343, sidnarachid@hotmail.com Dates: Mondays, September 8 — October 27, 2025 Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Text: Extraordinary Insects, by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson Presentations: Voluntary
Location: Foxtail 2, Senior Center, Class limit: 20

Remember the eccentrics who, at the turn of the 19th century, spent their days running around the countryside with their nets adding to their butterfly collections? Well, it turns out that they were on to something. Insects are very important to life on planet Earth.

We can all agree that insects are really annoying. If they’re not eating the flowers in your garden, they’re biting you and passing on diseases. But…could the human race survive without them?

Insects are more numerous than the grains of sand in all of the beaches on earth. They are everywhere even in the nostrils of walruses. Insects have survived five rounds of mass extinction, and without their pollination skills we’d starve.

Join me in an introduction to the world of insects and you will understand why we – and the world we inhabit—would not exist without these pesky and annoying creatures.