These books have brought me great pleasure and inspiration, both generally and while writing this book. I recommend them to any readers keen to take a deeper dive into the fantastic world of the insects.
M. R. Berenbaum, Bugs in the System (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995).
The books of Dave Goulson: A Sting in the Tale (2013), A Buzz in the Meadow (2014), and Bee Quest (2017), published by Picador and Jonathan Cape.
R. Jones, Call of Nature: The Secret Life of Dung (Exeter, UK: Pelagic Publishing, 2017.)
E. McAlister, The Secret Life of Flies (Buffalo, NY, 2017).
S. R. Shaw, Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014).
M. Zuk, Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).