One example is the importance of pollinators. It is estimated that only about 3% of insects are pests. Metamorphosis refers to the insect’s life cycle, and how it changes and grows into an adult.

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” Thus begins the most well known novella of the twentieth century, Die Verwandlung ...

What happened to Gregor Samsa, the protagonist of Franz Kafka’s famous novella The Metamorphosis, when he discovered that he had turned into an insect one fine morning? His whole world fell apart.

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is one of the cornerstones ... wakes up one morning to discover he’s been transformed into a ...

Metamorphosis seems like the ultimate evolutionary magic trick: the amazing transformation of one creature into a totally different being: one life, two bodies. From Ovid to Kafka to X-Men ...

Like many biologists before me, ever since I was a student I have been fascinated by metamorphosis. Lots of animals metamorphose, but we know most about insects. What can it mean for a caterpillar ...

His gaze seems to speak directly to the darkness of works like The Metamorphosis ... up as an insect, or suffer execution never knowing the crime you are accused of. The living Kafka, though ...

Seventeenth-century German artist, scientific illustrator and naturalist, Anna Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) is best known for her travels and research in Dutch Suriname, South America. At a time ...

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is widely accepted as a high watermark of strangeness. The story of a man who wakes up one morning and discovers he is an insect is uniquely baffling and creepy.