Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World

A Wonderful Journey into the Insect World through Literature, Science, Art, and Popular Culture Aristotle on metamorphosisAlfred Russel Wallace on the rare butterflies of the Malay ArchipelagoJean–Henri Fabre on the art of the dung beetleDave Barry on naming the U.S. Official National InsectCha [...]
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A Wonderful Journey into the Insect World through Literature, Science, Art, and Popular Culture Aristotle on metamorphosisAlfred Russel Wallace on the rare butterflies of the Malay ArchipelagoJean–Henri Fabre on the art of the dung beetleDave Barry on naming the U.S. Official National InsectCharles Darwin on seagoing insectsWilliam Beebe on an army ant invasionKevin Kelly on bee and human swarmingJonathan Schell on postnuclear insect survivalGary Larson on when insects take overMay Berenbaum on maggots and murderersHenry David Thoreau on race wars among the antsThomas Eisner on stealth bugsDavid George Gordon on appreciating the lowly cockroach Maurice Maeterlinck on the queen–bee’s weddingEdward O. Wilson on insect societies plus many other essays, illustrations, cartoons, screenplays, poems, recipes, tales, and observations on insect life.