IN the preface to Dr. Holland's admirable “Butterfly Book,” the author mentioned that he might subsequently issue a similar work on the moths. The book before us is uniform with Dr. Holland's, who is, ...

The objects of this little book are to aid its users in identifying and learning something about the larger insects in the British Isles. Owing to the number of species—more than twenty thousand—the ...

In perhaps the most cringe-worthy writing since “Lolita,” a new book from U.C. Berkeley alums exposes the horrible little beasties that share our homes with us. In San Francisco you can forget about ...

Reading Buzz, Sting, Bite ($26, Simon and Schuster), ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson’s exploration of the many ways insects contribute to the world, feels like being led into the woods by a zany, ...

It’s probably been awhile — and that’s a problem, Oliver Milman writes in his new book, “The Insect Crisis.” By Thor Hanson When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn ...

LAWRENCE -- The idea of bringing creepy-crawly insects into your home and setting them out on the coffee table could make most people bug out. But, here's an exception. A richly illustrated book on ...