(Those are Drosophila melanogaster — fruit flies)

Compound-eye kittens?

Hexapod kittens?

I mean, the “sea kittens” thing worked so damn well, didn’t it?  Surely they can use the same campaign to stem the rampant disregard for and violence against our little insect friends — violence that has spread to the highest office in the nation:

• PETA wishes Obama hadn’t swatted that fly (Huffington Post)

I suppose it’s comforting that, despite its present economic woes, we still live in a world in which an irritatingly ubiquitous congregation of whining nincompoops can dedicate their lives to shrill protestation against even the most trivial banalities.