Insectopolis : A natural history, Peter Kuper.

Colour hardcover, 256 pages, 22.6 x 27.5 x 2.7 cm, published by W. W. Norton & Company in May 2025

Award-winning author Peter Kuper transports readers through the 400 million years of insect history and the remarkable entomologists who have studied them. This visually engaging graphic non-fiction immerses you in a world where ants, cicadas, bees and butterflies visit an exhibition in a library, which shows their stories and humanity's connection with them throughout the ages. Kuper's thrilling visual feast combines history and science, color and design, to tell the remarkable stories of dung beetles that sail past the stars, prehistoric falcon-sized dragonflies that hunt prey, and mosquitoes that changed the course of human history. Kuper also highlights pioneering naturalists, from well-known figures like E. O. Wilson and Rachel Carson to unknowns like Charles Henry Turner, the African-American scholar who documented arthropod intelligence, and Maria Sybilla Merian, the 17th-century German considered the mother of entomology.