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  • $\begingroup$ the biggest problem with insects is the very contitions that make them efficent also make them massively prone to desease. It is the packed factory farming of livestock turned up to 11. $\endgroup$
    – John
    Commented May 31 at 1:13
  • $\begingroup$ They can do advanced genetic engineering, they have probably solved insects. $\endgroup$
    – Nepene Nep
    Commented May 31 at 13:06
  • $\begingroup$ desease is not somthing you solve, it is somthing you spend forever combating, because bacteria, viruses, and parasites are always adapting always getting introduced fom new places. $\endgroup$
    – John
    Commented May 31 at 18:53
  • $\begingroup$ We can't solve them, but if you can space travel you can fairly easily solve them by killing all nearby bacteria and such and introducing docile versions with kill switches. $\endgroup$
    – Nepene Nep
    Commented May 31 at 19:00
  • $\begingroup$ Insects are just another way of plant to meat transfer -- compaction reduces energy efficiency and stability. They are useful to transfer something unedible (but maybe otherwise highly efficient)) into edible material (like honey from pollen) and aid the plants in having sex. $\endgroup$
    – syck
    Commented Jun 4 at 19:08