Startled Insects has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 22 March 2014. Startled Insects's music has been featured on 17 episodes.

There are two artists who use the name The Insects:

Tim Norfolk and Bob Locke became known as The Insects in 1996 after changing their name from Startled Insects. They started co-writing for Bristol bands such as Massive Attack ('Karma Coma' and 'Euro Child'), and they wrote the track 'Human' from Goldfrapp's best-selling 'Felt Mountain' album. The Insects had written music for several documentaries, an animated feature film 'Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb', feature film 'Love and Death on Long Island'…