This pioneering book looks at the importance of insects to culture. While in the developed West a good deal of time and money may be spent trying to exterminate

Contains over seventy essays in which various authors from throughout history discuss insects.

Insects and human affairs; DDT and the balance of nature; science, pure apd applied; the science and practice of entomology; insects and the farmer; the fauna o

"Every science, including the study of insects, may have circumscribed limits, but its deeper principles open up new worlds of possibility. Milward uncovers the

Fabre was a well-respected etymologist who had a huge store of knowledge concerning all aspects of the insect world. What sets him apart from many others is his