The Insect Wars were a genocidal war campaign in prehistory, waged by the Ananasi against the Insect Races - insectoid shifters - who were originally created by the Weaver to protect Gaia, but who later pledged themselves to her mad task of bringing perfect order into the Tellurian. As the Insect Races waged war against the rest of creation in order to serve their creator, the Ananasi fought them, as there were too few other Fera to oppose them.