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• Insects
• Arthropod pests

• Insect pests -- Control
• Insect pests -- Periodicals
• Insect pests -- Puerto Rico
• Insects as carriers of disease

• Destructive insects
• Economic entomology
• Entomology, Economic
• Injurious insects
• Insects, Injurious and beneficial

• Farm Spies: How the Boys Investigated Field Crop Insects (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Albert Frederick Conradi and Willliam Andrew Thomas (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Remarks on the Insect Defoliators of Our Shade Trees (New York: Globe Stationery and Printing Co., ca. 1887), by Charles V. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic Entomology: Aptera ("volume I" only known volume of this projected series; London: Chapman and Hall, ca. 1877), by Andrew Murray (page images at Cornell)

• The Feasibility of Using Modified Atmospheres to Control Insect Pests in Museums (1993), by Michael K. Rust and Janice M. Kennedy (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1998), by Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Cotton Insects and Mites: Characterization and Management (Memphis: Cotton Foundation, 1996), ed. by Edgar George King, Jacob R. Phillips, and Randy J. Coleman (PDF files with commentary at cotton.org)

• Report of Observations of Injurious Insects, by Eleanor A. Ormerod (full serial archives)
• Journal of Economic Entomology (partial serial archives)

• Insects Affecting Vegetable Crops in Porto Rico (Bulletin of the USDA #192; 1915), by Thomas Henry Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Do Insects Transmit AIDS? (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1987), by Lawrence H. Miike and United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• The Cause of Yellow Fever (typewritten copy of an article from the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, 1848), by Josiah C. Nott (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• What Does the Honeybee See? And How Do We Know? A Critique of Scientific Reason (2009), by G. Adrian Horridge (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Book of Monsters (Washington: National Geographic Society, 1914), by David Fairchild and Marian Fairchild
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Elementary Text-Book of Entomology (second edition; London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., New York: Macmillan, 1892), by W. F. Kirby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Glossary to Say's Entomology (Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell, 1825), by Thomas Say (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of the Grasshopper (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Jean-Henri Fabre, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses (Salem: Naturalists' Agency; Boston: Estes and Lauriat; New York: Dodd and Mead, 1873), by A. S. Packard
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects, by Jean-Henri Fabre, trans. by Bernard Miall and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Gutenberg text)
• College Entomology (New York: Macmillan, 1947), by E. O. Essig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild Nature's Ways (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1909), by Richard Kearton, illust. by Cherry Kearton and Richard Kearton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, by James S. Jameson, ed. by Mrs. James S. Jameson, illust. by Charles Whymper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera) (University of Kansas Science Bulletin v. 32; 1948), by H. B. Hungerford, contrib. by R. I. Sailer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Insect Architecture (London: Bell and Daldy, 1869), by James Rennie, ed. by J. G. Wood (images at HathiTrust)

• Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects (Washington: GPO, 1892), by Charles V. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Manual of Entomological Techniques (seventh edition; 1953), by Alvah Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Disease in a Minor Chord: Being a Semihistorical and Semibiographical Account of a Period in Science When One Could Be Happily Yet Seriously Concerned with the Diseases of Lowly Animals Without Backbones, Especially the Insects (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), by Edward A. Steinhaus (PDF at Ohio State)

• Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, trans. by David Wyllie (Gutenberg text)
• Tainaron: Mail from Another City, by Leena Krohn, trans. by Hildi Hawkins (HTML in Finland)

• Die Apterygotenfauna Finlands (2 volumes in 1, in Finnish; 1907), by Walter Mikael Linnaniemi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Popular British Entomology: Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the Insects Most Common to the Localities of the British Isles (second edition; London: Reeve and Co., 1852), by Maria E. Catlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Nomenclature of British Insects: Being a Compendious List of Such Species as are Contained in the Systematic Catalogue of British Insects, and Forming a Guide to Their Classification (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1829), by James Francis Stephens (PDF at MSU)

• Insects of Hawaii, Johnson Island and Wake Island (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #31; Honolulu: The Museum, 1926), ed. by E. H. Bryan (PDF at bishopmuseum.org)

• Revisione degli Stafilinidi Italiana (5 parts in 1 volume; Camerino: Savini, 1904-1908), by Antonio Porta
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Insects of Hawaii, Johnson Island and Wake Island (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #31; Honolulu: The Museum, 1926), ed. by E. H. Bryan (PDF at bishopmuseum.org)

• Jack's Insects (popular edition; first part of the 1910 edition; London: Methuen and Co., c1920), by Edmund Selous, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Jack's Other Insects (popular edition; second part of the 1910 "Jack's Insects" edition; London: Methuen and Co., c1920), by Edmund Selous, illust. by J. A. Shepherd
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Woggle-Bug Book (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., 1905), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by Ike Morgan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Down Spider Web Lane (New York: Barse and Hopkins, c1909), by Mary Dickerson Donahey, illust. by Gertrude A. Kay (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Doctor Dolittle's Garden (1927), by Hugh Lofting
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• The American Boys' Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1915), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, by R. M. Ballantyne, contrib. by William Roscoe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Fairy Frisket; or, Peeps at Insect Life (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1874), by A. L. O. E.
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of Insects (New York: Samuel Wood, 1813) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Introduction to the Natural History and Classification of Insects, by Priscilla Wakefield (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
• Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., 1895), by Henry C. McCook (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Sister's Stories (Kirkby Lonsdale: Arthur Foster; London: L.B. Seeley and Sons, 1833), by Selina Martin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Gift for a Little Child (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1843) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Natural History of Reptiles, Serpents, and Insects (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Natural History: or, Uncle Philip's Conversations With the Children About Tools and Trades Among Inferior Animals (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by Francis L. Hawks (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Peacock "At Home", by A Lady; To Which is Added The Butterflies Ball (London: J. Harris, ca.1824), by Catherine Ann Turner Dorset and William Roscoe (page images with commentary in the UK)
• The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Oliver Herford
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • page images at ufl.edu

More items available under broader and related terms at left.