 | Insects through the Seasons by Gilbert Waldbauer
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $5.83 One of the first books I read on insects and still one of my favorites.
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 | The EARTH DWELLERS: Adventures in the Land of Ants by Erich Hoyt
Buy new: $18.85 / Used from: $3.00 Adventurous in a way you might not expect. Makes me wish I'd become an entomologist.
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 | Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs by Sue Hubbell
Buy used from: $4.49 Hubbell's writing is always entertaining, especially when she's musing on insects.
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 | The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survival by Bernd Heinrich
Buy used from: $9.77 |
 | Bugs In The System: Insects And Their Impact On Human Affairs (Helix Books) by May R. Berenbaum
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.40 Probably the best overall book on insect-human interactions.
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 | Life on a Little Known Planet by Howard Ensign Evans
Buy used from: $1.91 |
 | An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles by Arthur V. Evans
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $12.95 |
 | Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World by Richard Conniff
Buy used from: $0.99 Conniff's writing is imbued not only with a sense of wonder but also a delightful sense of irony.
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 | Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees: A Close-Up Look at Chemical Warfare and Signals in Animals and Plants by William C. Agosta
Buy used from: $4.75 Studying insects usually involves studying plants... and vice versa.
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 | Natural World of Bugs and Insects by Ken Preston-Mafham
Buy used from: $19.99 |
 | National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (National Audubon Society Field Guides) by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $4.96 |
 | The Ants by Bert Hölldobler
Buy new: $91.37 / Used from: $67.96 |
 | Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World
Buy new: $40.00 / Used from: $2.32 |
 | Passionate Observer by Jean Henri Fabre
Buy used from: $8.19 |
 | A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them by Sue Hubbell
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $3.85 |
 | Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles: How Bugs Find Strength in Numbers by Gilbert Waldbauer
Buy new: $27.50 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Angels & Insects: Two Novellas by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Okay, so the hero's not so heroic in this one. But at least he's an entomologist.
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| The adventures of Madalene and Louisa by Louisa Maria Sabine Pasley
Buy used from: $1.50 Victorian whimsy featuring two aspiring entomologists and their charming insect drawings.
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 | The Illusion of Orderly Progress by Barbara Norfleet
Buy used from: $0.50 Ostensibly about bugs, but really about the human condition.
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 | The Anatomy of Insects & Spiders: Over 600 Exquisite Forms by Claire Beverley
Buy used from: $3.98 |
 | What Good Are Bugs?: Insects in the Web of Life by Gilbert Waldbauer
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $3.65 |
 | Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology by Eric Grissell
Buy used from: $4.56 Keeping it all in balance in the garden.
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 | Buzzwords: A Scientist Muses on Sex, Bugs, and Rock 'n' Roll by May R. Berenbaum
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $1.20 Side-splittingly funny. Probably the only book on entomology with a cover blurb by Dave Barry.
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 | The Handy Bug Answer Book (Handy Answer Books) by Gilbert Waldbauer
Buy used from: $2.99 Bug trivia, par excellance.
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 | Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.01 Archy is a cockroach and a free-verse poet. You've got to read it to get it, but once you get it, you're hooked for life.
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