1. An introduction to insects: Busting the myths, lies, and urban legends -- 2. History of entomology : a discipline founded on death -- 3. Insects are not all bad : beneficial aspects of insect-human interactions -- 4. Insects shaping human civilization : turns out they might be bad after all -- 5. "Dressed" for success : the insect body plan -- 6. The insect's new clothes : growing by shedding -- 7. Insect Facebook : the basics of insect classification -- 8. Insects are phat but not fat : diet, nutrition, and food assimilation -- 9. Sex in the city and everywhere else : insect reproductive strategies -- 10. You can teach an insect new tricks : learning and memory in six-legged beasts -- 11. Instant messaging in the insect world : communication with kin and non-kin -- 12. Small but fortified : insects are not defenseless -- 13. Life on the edge : coping with stress -- 14. Revenge of the humans : insects as the hunted -- 15. Forensic entomology : insects as tools in legal investigations -- 16. Insect mercenaries : weapons for human warfare and national security -- 17. Invasive and elusive : new insect threats to the human condition
