For as long as humans have been here, insects have been here. Yet people hardly know them, not even the ones they're closest to: the insects that eat their food, share their beds, and live in their homes. This insectopedia changes that lack of knowledge.

Reviews

"Beautifully lyrical." -"The Boston Globe
""Unique beyond imagination. Bizarre. Endlessly interesting, a book that cannot be categorized. This book insists you learn its unexpected facts because you cannot put it down...You will never forget having read this book. You will never forget where you put it either, since you have dog-eared it for displays of another astounding fact when your friends come to visit." -"Decatur Daily
""As Raffles shows our nearby neighbors to be at once dangerous and beautiful, common and incomprehensible, he refracts a world that is newly fascinating." -Audubonmagazine.com
"Compulsively readable, equal parts anthropology, travel, philosophy, history and science..."Insectopedia" will stir your imagination." -valeaston.com, "Plant Talk"
"As inventive and wide ranging and full of astonishing surprises as the vast insect world itself. Raffles takes us on a delirious journey, zooming in and out from the microscopic to the global, fromn