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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 beeand humanswarming 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-bees wedding Edward O. Wilson on insect societies plus many other essays, illustrations, cartoons, screenplays, poems, recipes, tales, and observations on insect life.Hoyt, Erich is the author of 'Insect Lives Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World', published 2002 under ISBN 9780674009523 and ISBN 0674009525.
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