Insects represent at least a quarter of all wild species in these islands. (Image credit: Alison Bell/British Wildlife Photography Awards)The fertilising services of these creatures are also of huge economic value for humankind. (Image credit: Richard Aspinall)Insects are so much more than their utilitarian ‘assets’, however. Named insects represent half of all documented life forms and their numbers are mind boggling. Insects are, he wrote, ‘the little things that run the world’.