People or Insects?

Riffing on a line from the movie We Bought a Zoo, I ask, "If you had to pick people or insects, which would you choose?"

Seems like a loaded question.  Of course, you'd say people.  I would too -- usually.

But.

Here's what a thoughtless person does:
 

Now look again, a bit more closely, and what do you see?

See it?  That tiny insect? 

An American Bluet cleverly perches on the rim, casually bobbing and floating, waiting and watching for a female ready to mate.

Human callousness or insect ingenuity?

Now which do you choose?