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Prologue

1 Night-Flying Moths
2 Butterflies and Wings
3 Dragonflies Now and Then
4 Grasshoppers and Other Orthoptera
5 Beetles Large and Small
6 Bumblebees Out in the Cold
7 Tropical Bees
8 Hot-Headed Honeybees
9 The Tolerance of Ants
10 Wasps and the Heat of Battle
11 Flies of All Kinds
12 Sweating Cicadas
13 Warm Caterpillars and Hot Maggots
14 Fever
15 Cold Jumpers
16 Social Thermoregulation
Summary
References
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors Cited
General Index.