A small earthquake would cause the ground to jump 100 yards at 25 miles per hour "so that even the insects could not survive," he said.

These insects feed exclusively on blood and may survive a year without eating.

If this theory is correct, these insects would have been susceptible to falling oxygen levels and certainly could not survive in our modern atmosphere.

With special nutritionally-enhanced diets, the insects can survive, but are unhealthy, and at best survive only a few generations.

Over years insects have withstood natural calamities and survived successfully.

Looking down on the desolation, it was hard to believe even an insect could have survived, let alone any large animal.

Some insects survive winter by laying eggs amid the detritus, at the bases or on stalks of plants.

Looking for protoblood, the Lexx returns to the Cluster to learn that a huge insect survived.

In the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe, insects would likely adapt and survive.