Foreword

Stage 1: The false return of the cold-peatland damselfly

Stage 2: A giant fossilized dragonfly in a coal mine in Auvergne

Stage 3: Life of the Rhône insects is not always smooth sailing

Stage 4: The Spanish moon moth, a treasure of the southern mountains

Stage 5: The Corsican pine hawk-moth, a flagship species of the island’s endemic fauna

Stage 6: Do not disturb the nesting sites of the wall mason bee!

Stage 7: Follow the truffle fly in Provence!

Stage 8: The great blue rose chafer of Païolive forest

Stage 9: A health crisis among the silkworms of the Cévennes: And Pasteur became a biologist

Stage 10: The lace-winged predatory bush cricket of the garrigue

Stage 11: The grasshopper of the Crau steppe, Europe’s last steppe

Stage 12: The buffalo treehopper in the vineyards of Languedoc

Stage 13: The poisoning of dung beetles in the pastures of Larzac

Stage 14: The false slug of the Catalan ant hills

Stage 15: The resurrection of the bone skipper fly

Stage 16: Jewel beetles, infrared, and forest fires

Stage 17: The yellow-legged termite from Louisiana conquers the East

Stage 18: Saving the dune scarab beetle

Stage 19: The decline of bumblebees and the drop in clover yields

Stage 20: The Asian longhorn beetle, a hitchhiker in the city

Stage 21: The beetle that stopped the highway bulldozers

Stage 22: Carpet beetles on the attack of insect collections

Stage 23: The Two “amazon” stick insects of the Brittany Peninsula

Stage 24: The cynipid wasp and black gall ink

Stage 25: The amber owlfly of the Seine valley slopes

Stage 26: The Paris metro cricket

Stage 27: The green aphid of sugar beet and the neonicotinoid controversy

Stage 28: The pine processionary moth, a sentinel of climate change

Stage 29: The mounds of red wood ants in the Vosges forests

Stage 30: The European spruce bark beetle and the decline of hillside spruce

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index of Species