Dara Ojo is a master of wildlife macrophotography — extreme close-up shots showing little critters in all their odd, beautiful glory.

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.

In many languages, the ladybird is called “little cow”, and in Irish the insect is called “Bóín Dé”, or God’s little cow.

Most famously, in 1983, he compiled the Schmidt Index, ranking the stings of 78 insects from one to four according to their pain. Most he had endured himself—felt he had to endure, because of ...