While providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect and are affected by bugs as part of a wider network of species. 14 chapters reveal how knowledge, ideas, and emotions related to bugs are historically and culturally formed. With many bug populations in free fall, how can humans and bugs coexist? This book examines this question and offers a new ethics for this coexistence.

Contributors are Michaela Fenske, Minna Santaoja, Concepcion Cortes Zulueta, Heidi Mikkola, Laura Hollsten, Sophie FitzMaurice, Otto Latva, Marianne Maekelin, Taina Syrjaemaa, Suvi Rytty, Sanna Lillbroaenda-Annala, Emily Webster, Karine Aasgaard Jansen, Heta Laehdesmaeki, and Tuomas Raesaenen.