Insects and the Psychology of Disgust and Repulsion

Humans have a widely held disgust for insects.

Is this disgust innate, or even universal? Are there good evolutionary reasons for it? Or is it just learnt behaviour? And how did Franz Kafka exploit this sense of disgust so successfully in Metamorphosis?

Join us for a panel discussion in the Museum’s beautifully-decorated Westwood room, originally Mr Hope’s Museum of Entomology.