Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1:  Small Creatures, Smart Design: Insect Anatomy

Chapter 2:  Six-legged Sex: Dating, Mating and Parenting

Chapter 3:  Eat or Be Eaten: Insects in the Food Chain

Chapter 4:  Insects and Plants: A Never-ending Race

Chapter 5:  Busy Flies, Flavoursome Bugs: Insects and Our Food

Chapter 6:  The Circle of Life – and Death: Insects as Caretakers

Chapter 7:  From Silk to Shellac: Industries of Insects

Chapter 8:  Lifesavers, Pioneers and Nobel Prize-winners: Insights from Insects

Chapter 9:  Insects and Us: What’s Next?

Afterword

Thanks

Further Reading

Sources

List of Searchable Terms