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• 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)

• A Sister's Stories (Kirkby Lonsdale: Arthur Foster; London: L.B. Seeley and Sons, 1833), by Selina Martin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Bee Who Would Not Work (Philadelphia: Pub. for the Public Ledger by P. F. Volland and Co., 1916), by Charlotte B. Herr, illust. by Frances Beem (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

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)
• 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)

• 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 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 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; Gravenhage: 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

• 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)

• American Entomology, or, Descriptions of the Insects of North America (3 volumes; Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell, 1824-1828), by Thomas Say
  • Volume 1 (with plates 1-18): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (with plates 19-36): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (with plates 37-54): multiple formats at archive.org

More items available under broader and related terms at left.