With their pincers, horns and armour, these minibeasts might look terrifying, but luckily for us they are tiny and harmless. You can see them all around us, living in leaf litter, plants, water, sand ...

Slimy, scary, "the size of a Buick" — we use a lot of terms to describe bugs, but "yummy" isn't usually one of them. We associate insect ingestion with reality television shows like Fear Factor ...