If you’re looking for information on a particular species or entomology in general, we recommend these books. This list includes field guides, manuals, essays, children’s books, and other works on nature.
Most of these books are available at bookstores and libraries. This is not an exhaustive list — you’ll find additional suggestions in our English book recommendations.
Field guides to insects and other arthropods
Backyard Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America
Common Spiders of North America
Caterpillars of Eastern North America
Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species
Manuals, essays, and other reference works
Pollination: The Enduring Relationship between Plant and Pollinator
Smithsonian Handbook of Interesting Insects
Metamorphosis: How Insects Are Changing Our World
All You Need to Know about Spiders
Children’s books on insects
Ultimate Bugopedia, 2nd Edition
Encyclopedia of Insects : an illustrated guide to nature's most weird and wonderful bugs
Respect the insect : Meet the bugs who clean, tend, and feed the world
Other books on nature
Culture: The Insect Epiphany : How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human Culture
Nature observation: Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide and Month-By-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods, and Marshes of New England
Biophilia: Last Child in the Woods
Biophilia: Edward O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist