User blog comment:Zephyrcoil/Black and Yellow/@comment-173.58.251.107-20141206075717/@comment-24891101-20141206084210

What's with the technicality? It's a member of class Insecta within Arthropoda within Animalia.

Seriously, I've seen people constantly distinguish insects and animals, as if the one isn't a variety of the other. Why is that?