This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants cicadas bees
and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity's
connection to them throughout the ages. Kuper's thrilling visual feast layers history and
science color and design to tell the remarkable tales of dung beetles navigating by the stars
hawk-size prehistoric dragonflies hunting prey and mosquitoes changing the course of human
history. Kuper also illuminates pioneering naturalists from well-known figures like E. O.
Wilson and Rachel Carson to unheralded luminaries like Charles Henry Turner the Black American
scholar who documented arthropod intelligence and Maria Sybilla Merian the
seventeenth-century German regarded as the mother of entomology. Galvanized by the sixth
extinction and the ongoing insect crisis Kuper takes readers on an unforgettable journey.
