MOVIES - Feb. 23, 1987

Meanwhile, in Urbana, Ill., another annual film festival--the Insect Fear Film Festival--closes today at the University of Illinois. The 1962 Japanese film “Mothra” and 1973’s “Invasion of the Bee Girls” were the featured films, along with cartoons featuring mosquitoes, a fly and a female cockroach torch singer--plus a display of real insects that includes a tarantula and a moth with a 9-inch wingspan. “I think (insects’) sexual practices are scary to a male-dominated Hollywood,” said entomologist May Berenbaum of the University of Illinois. “It’s the ultimate nightmare for the macho type.”