Do you like bugs? Yes, they are a part of God's good creation and they have a function within it. But I would be just as content if they went about whatever work they have to do without my ever seeing them. I know I'm not alone. A feeling like that is almost ingrained in us from the time we learn:

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider and sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.[1]

I don't know if Israel had a nursery rhyme to describe their feelings about bugs. If they did, it might have been about locusts rather than spiders. In Palestine, locusts have always been a problem. They are much more than a creepy inconvenience. They can devastate an entire area with all the horror of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

To say the least, an inva…