📚 Insects & Entomology

The most numerous animals on land: identification, behaviour and metamorphosis, and the enormous role insects play in pollination and decay.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject insects in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	La vie des abeilles	Maurice Maeterlinck	1900	70
	Social Life in the Insect World	Jean-Henri Fabre	1911	38
	Entomological news	American Entomological Society	1925	38
	An introduction to entomology	John Henry Comstock	1888	33
	A manual on the study of insects	John Henry Comstock	1895	32
	Our common insects	Alpheus S. Packard	1873	26
	Guide to the study of insects	Alpheus S. Packard	1868	23
	Insects, their ways and means of living	R. E. Snodgrass	1910	22
	I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs and Other Questions About Creepy-crawlies (I Wonder Why)	Amanda O'Neill	1995	19
	Souvenirs entomologiques	Jean-Henri Fabre	1879	18
	Insect physiology	Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth	1934	18
	Insects	Herbert S. Zim	1951	18
	The insects	Peter Farb	1962	16
	Nature's garden	Neltje Blanchan	1900	15
	The social animal	Elliot Aronson	1972	15
	Anatomy of the honey bee	R. E. Snodgrass	1910	14
	The Life Cycle of a Butterfly (Life Cycle of A...)	Bobbie Kalman	1997	13
	Big Bug Search (Great Searches	Caroline Young	1997	12
	A field guide to insects, America north of Mexico	Donald Joyce Borror	1970	11
	Joyful Noise	Paul Fleischman	1988	11
	Bugs Are Insects	Anne F. Rockwell	2001	11
	An introduction to the study of insects	Donald Joyce Borror	1954	10
	Entomology and pest management	Larry P. Pedigo	1989	10
	Bugs Il (Discovery Program)	Rosie Dickins	2002	9
	1001 bugs to spot	Emma Helbrough	2005	9
	Are you a ladybug?	Judy Allen	2000	8
	Silent Earth	Dave Goulson	2021	8
	Honeybee ecology	Thomas D. Seeley	1985	7
	Insect detective	Steve Voake	2010	7
	Insect ecology	Peter W. Price	1975	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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