Robert McNeil - It's just not cricket to stuff your sandwiches full of creepy-crawlies to save the planet

SEVERAL years ago, the Scottish Newspaper Content Society decreed: "There are not nearly enough stories about insects in the papers these days. We demand editors remedy this situation urgently." Ever since, barely a day goes by without a tale from the wacky world of these strange, amiable creatures. "Fly injured in swatting incident." "Earwig scared children." "Beetle scuttles rapidly." The news is rarely good.

Yesterday, former Eurovision Song Contest winner, Bob Dylan, was roped into the ongoing controversies after it emerged that bees in the neighbourhood of his big hoose in the Highlands were disappearing. Fingers of suspicion pointed at the writer of p...