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The Hellstrom Chronicle
1971 · Film · documentary · 90 min
Directed by Walon Green, Ed Spiegel
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
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Not the short story you're looking for, but The Hellstrom Chronicle is a 1971 pseudoscience mocumentary in the same vein: the struggle for survival between humans and insects. The conclusion is that insects will "win" due to their adaptability and ability to reproduce rapidly and humans' inability to organize due to excessive individualism.
The film is an odd duck: it's satirical and knowingly pseudoscience yet it won both the 1972 Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Documentary Feature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle
The Hellstrom Chronicle is a 1971 pseudo-documentary about the threat of insects, due to their adaptability and rapid reproduction, to humanity. It won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It's available on Netflix DVD and YouTube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle
The Hellstrom Chronicle is a 1971 "science fictiony" cult film that, strangely, won the 1972 Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Documentary Feature.
In the film, the fictitious scientist Dr. Nils Hellstrom claims, on the basis of scientific-sounding theories, that insects will ultimately win the fight for survival on planet Earth because of their adaptability and ability to reproduce rapidly, and that the human race will lose this fight largely because of excessive individualism.
(The film is available on Netflix and YouTube.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle
The insects will win in the end. They are too numerous and reproduce so rapidly that they can out-evolve humans.
Well, it's a fun though experiment, at least. :)
In the The Hellstrom Chronicle, a 1971 Academy Award winning quasi-documentary/science fiction/horror film, a fictitious scientist called Dr. Nils Hellstrom presents scientific-sounding theories that insects will ultimately win the fight for survival on planet Earth because of their adaptability and ability to reproduce rapidly. The human race will lose this fight largely because of excessive individualism.
The film provided the inspiration for Frank Herbert's science fiction novel Hellstrom's Hive.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle