It is widely accepted that approximately 65 million years ago, an extraterrestrial object slammed into the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, creating a worldwide climatic shift that wiped out the dinosaurs, and many other terrestrial and marine species. But what happened to the insects? They undoubtedly represented a larger biomass than the dinosaurs, but it's fair to say they haven't captured the public's imagination in the same way. The reason the fate of the insects has not been adequately explored is due to the paucity of the available fossil record of the insect bodies. There are a few records of insects embedded in amber or fossilized, but practically none are available from the time of mass extinction referred to as the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary. Recently, Conrad Labandeira, Kirk Johnson, and Peter Wiif found an ingenious way to examine indirect evidence and show what happened to the insects during this time.