Sex on Six Legs Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World

"Sex on Six Legs waxes exuberant [on insects] over nine consistently delightful chapters [...] [Zuk is] wry, mischievous and conversational. The book can be unsettling at times, but it persistently aroused in this reviewer a wriggling, six-legs-up delight.
– New York Times Book Review

Smart, engaging [...] Zuk approaches her subject with such humor and enthusiasm for the intricacies of insect life, even bug-phobes will relish her account."
– Publishers Weekly, starred

" [...] one of the most readable books about insect behavior [...] Zuk has the uncanny ability to take what most of us consider just plain creepy and turn it into the fascinating and the revelatory."
– Booklist

"A global sampling of the clever lives and loves of our six-legged friends. Zuk's chapters, particularly on social insects, are rich in examples [...] Plenty of intriguing questions to ponder as Zuk informs adults in a droll style that may also turn on younger readers. After all, entomology is still a field that can begin, as it did for her, with venturing into the yard to collect stuff in a glass jar."
– Kirkus Reviews

"Incest, democracy, tyranny, sexual cannibalism: insects have them all, and more. In Sex on Six Legs, Marlene Zuk gives insects, the animal kingdom's unseen majority, their full, marvelous due."
– Carl Zimmer, author of The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution and A Planet of Viruses