Students Fight Fears to Learn Bugs' Value
The importance of arthropods in the environment is too important to ignore, so a faculty member at The University of Texas at El Paso is researching the impact of "bugging" future K-12 teachers. Ron Wagler, Ph.D., assistant professor of science education, explains that arthropods (i.e., bugs) serve a valuable purpose in food webs whether as food for other animals, predators of other pests that could destroy crops, pollinators of flowing plants, consumers of waste and a myriad of other phenomenon that make human existence possible.
