A scientist travels across North America in search of a rare beetle, collecting stories along the way.

When eccentric scientist Papa Schimmelhorn plays his seemingly harmless bassoon, a wave of material-eating Gnurrs are summoned by the millions. He uses them to end the war against Bobovia.

At a space frontier, infected humans are turning into alien moth creatures and the government considers mass executing them all. A scientist who has seen signs of the moths' intelligence must fight for their lives.

In modern-day China, a cohort of wasps skilled in cartography establishes a new colony, exercising their suppressive rule over a local beehive. One anarchist bee makes inroads into the wasp colony, setting in motion a subversion of the wasp monarchy and a new, pioneering generation of anarchist bees.

An initially unwanted infestation fosters understanding between a woman and the cockroaches in her house.

The female mantis kills her husband ten different ways.

A boy finds a mysterious caterpillar-like creature in the forest one day. He brings it home and kills it to add to his wildlife collection, but becomes haunted by creatures he can no longer control.