A Wonderful Journey into the Insect World through Literature; Science; Art; and Popular Culture Aristotle on metamorphosis * Alfred Russel Wallace on the rare butterflies of the Malay Archipelago * Jean-Henri Fabre on the art of the dung beetle * Dave Barry on naming the U.S. Official National Insect * Charles Darwin on seagoing insects * William Beebe on an army ant invasion * Kevin Kelly on bee and human swarming * Jonathan Schell on postnuclear insect survival * Gary Larson on when insects take over * May Berenbaum on maggots and murderers * Henry David Thoreau on race wars among the ants * Thomas Eisner on stealth bugs * David George Gordon on appreciating the lowly cockroach * Maurice Maeterlinck on the queen-bee s wedding * Edward O. Wilson on insect societies plus many other essays; illustrations; cartoons; screenplays; poems; recipes; tales; and observations on insect life.
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