Acorn weevil (Curculio glandium) on a stem of grass Credit Peter Paul Smith

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Alien Worlds: How insects conquered the Earth and why their fate will determine our future by Steve Nicholls
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Cover of the book, Insects as Protein for Food and Feed, by Adriana Casillas (Ed.), published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.
Cover of book, Riverfly Handbook, by Craig R. Macadam, published by The Amateur Entomologists' Society.
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Cover of Conservation of Dragonflies

Conservation of Dragonflies: Sentinels of Freshwater Conservation


by Michael J. Samways
Reviewed by Eleanor Colver (British Dragonfly Society)

Cover of Courtship and Mating in Butterflies

Courtship and Mating in Butterflies


by Raymond J.C. Cannon
Reviewed by Richard Harrington

Courtship and Mate-finding in Insects cover

Courtship and Mate-finding in Insects: A Comparative Approach


by Raymond J.C. Cannon
Reviewed by Tom Pope

Cover image of novel Death's Final Sting

Death’s Final Sting


by Tracy Buchanan
Reviewed by Dee Harrington

Cover of Dragons & Damsels: An Identification Guide to the British and Irish Odonata

Dragons & Damsels: An Identification Guide to the British and Irish Odonata


by Adrian M. Riley
Reviewed by Richard Harrington

Cover of Empire of Ants

Empire of Ants


by Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche
Reviewed by Adam Hart

Cover of Endless Forms book by Seirian Sumner, showing two wasp wings

Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps


by Seirian Sumner
Reviewed by Richard Jones

Essential Entomology (2nd edition)


by George McGavin & Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou
Reviewed by Tom Pope

Cover of Exmoor (New Naturalist, 150)

Exmoor (New Naturalist, 150)


by Flemming Ulf-Hansen
Reviewed by Kenneth Thompson

Cover of extraordinary insects

Extraordinary Insects


by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson (translated from the Norwegian by Lucy Moffatt)
Reviewed by Stuart Reynolds

Fact and Fable, Life of W.F. Kirby


by Ursula Kirby Brett
Reviewed by Richard Jones