Life on a Little-Known Planet by Howard Ensign Evans. The author, a Harvard entomologist, dedicated this riveting book on insect life to the book lice and silverfish that inhabited his study with him. Even though many new discoveries about insects have been reported since this book was published in 1968 (my copy, purchased as a used paperback, cost $2.45 when it was printed!), when I re-read it today, the book seems more prescient than outdated in its appreciation for the complexity of these tiny beings.
