“Find your inner bugdork. It wants to come out and play,” their website invites people

Oct 22, 2012 13:47 GMT  ·  By
The Bug Chicks wish to raise awareness with respect to the need to protect insects
   The Bug Chicks wish to raise awareness with respect to the need to protect insects

Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker, i.e. the two bug chicks from Portland, first got together in 2005, and ever since they have been doing a great job in teaching both grown-ups and children about the secret lives of insects.

Their commitment to biodiversity and green-oriented education is now getting significant amounts of media attention thanks to Oregon Live's latest account of their work.

Apparently, these two young women wish to help people surpass their fear of bugs, and spread the message that insects are in fact fascinating creatures worthy of our attention.

“You've got people out there fighting for the whales, people are out there fighting for the polar bears -- someone's got to be out there fighting for the bugs,” Kristie Reddick explains.

Furthermore, “People don't know that much about bugs. They think they know a lot about bugs, and what they think they know is scary. That's why we do what we do.”

According to the same source, it took quite a while for these two conservationists to set up the basis for their innovative green-oriented agenda.

Thus, it may very well be that they first met in 2005 during an insect photography course, yet their collaboration only began in 2007.

From that moment on, it took about two years before they first began to refer to themselves as The Bug Chicks.

Apparently, they came up with this name after a professor who knew them both said that they should call themselves The Bug Ladies.

“Both Jess and I said 'eeew,' that sounds gross and old, like an octogenarian cruise. We immediately both said, “How about The Bug Chicks?,” Kristie Reddick recollects.

Seeing how, according to recent reports, the world's biodiversity is quite likely to lose roughly 20% of its invertebrates in the not so distant future – fruit flies included, it comes as good news that people such as these two young women are doing their best in looking after these usually neglected species.