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  • Everything has a purpose in this life..Including insects. http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/factsheets2/insectpest/feb87pr1.html http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/03/030402t_insects.jhtml http://naturesmightypictures.blogspot.com/2006/07/why-are-insects-so-important.html
  • Insects eat decaying stuff helping it turn into dirt. THey pollinate flowers. Lots of other stuff too. for everything there is a purpose. Not too sure about humans tho.
  • yes of course.. i bet they think do human have a purpose in life :D everything does
  • Yes...and a purpose which, unlike that of humans, can be determined.
  • Watch ants work sometime, they are always on a mission. They work much harder than I ever do! Then there's flys that'll eat poop and anything else that I wouldn't dare touch.
  • By "purpose in life", what do you mean? Some insects are remarkably clever, and all of them demonstrate clearly that they are conscious, if only in the sense that they feel pain, respond to stimuli, and learn. Insects, like almost all animals, try to breed and survive, in that order. It seems evident to me that their "purpose" is to continue to live - to persist in this life. Which is essentially the purpose of humans too. Insects may not have thoughts complex enough to allow them to contemplate life and death, or their desire to survive, or even to formulate such ideas, but their actions generally speak to the fact that they are working to survive. If we're talking about their ecological "purpose", then it's clear that they have many, varied purposes. They pollinate flowers, they eat and assist in the breakdown of wastes, they serve as both predators and prey for various creatures (many species of birds eat insects, for instance). It's widely believed that the human inspiration for inventing paper was the wasp and it's paperlike nest construction. Honey is a widely prized dietary staple, and has been for longer than recorded history. I'm generally not a fan of seeing "purpose" in the natural world, because the idea of purpose is such a distinctly human abstraction, and it usually serves to blur, confuse, or oversimplify the issue. The truth is that they live and breed, and their success at doing so in a wide variety of habitats is why they're so widespread and why they will continue to live and breed, probably as long as Earth is capable of supporting animal life. The ecological "purpose" of humans is far less clear, but that isn't really very surprising, considering that most of us humans are a long way from the African savannahs in which we evolved.
  • yep: to feed something that feeds something else that feeds something else that feeds us :)
  • Yes, the world couldn't function without them, even those pesky mosquitoes are vital as they can pollinate many things that other creatures cannot. And in the far north, they not only pollinate the tiny flowers they are also the principle food for many young chicks. Insects pollinate, clean up, fertilize, move things.

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