The Influential and Determining Insects

The bug. The mosquito, for example. The carrier of malaria, holds much of Africa's population under its dominion. Fleas carried the plague back in the middle ages. Bugs eat away at crops.

Insects are a serious global issue. Especially since Global Warming might help certain insect populations increase and migrate, transporting disease to new places.

Foreign Policy's blog has a post of a world map colored by insect infestation.