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• 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)
• Experiments on the Generation of Insects (translated from the Italian edition of 1688; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1909), by Francesco Redi, ed. by Robert Payne Bigelow, trans. by Mab Bigelow (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)
• Social Life in the Insect World (London: T. F. Unwin, 1919), by Jean-Henri Fabre, trans. by Bernard Miall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• Genetic Variations of Drosophila Melanogaster (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #627, ca. 1968), by Dan L. Lindsley and E. H. Grell, contrib. by Calvin B. Bridges and Katherine Brehme Warren (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Guests of British Ants: Their Habits and Life-Histories (London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1927), by Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 Guam (2 volumes (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #172 and #189); Honolulu: The Museum, 1942-1946), ed. by Otto H. Swezey
  • Volume I: PDF at bishopmuseum.org
  • Volume II: PDF at bishopmuseum.org

• 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 Tale of Mrs. Ladybug (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1921), by Arthur Scott Bailey, illust. by Harry L. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• The Tale of Betsy Butterfly (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1918), by Arthur Scott Bailey (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• 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)
• Insect Adventures: Selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" Retold for Young People (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917), by Jean-Henri Fabre, ed. by Louise Hasbrouck Zimm, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, illust. by Elias Goldberg (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

• De Nederlandsche Insecten (in Dutch; reprint; The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1900), by Johannes Theodorus Oudemans (page images at Gallica)
• De Nederlandsche Insecten (in Dutch; Zutphen: W. J. Thieme et Cie., ca. 1900), by Johannes Theodorus Oudemans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Aquatic Insects in New York State (New York State Museum bulletin #68 (Entomology 18); Albany, NY: University of the State of New York, 1903), by James G. Needham, Alex. D. MacGillivray, O. A. Johannsen, and Kary Cadmus Davis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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