May Berenbaum, professor of entomology at the University of Illinois and insect popularizer extraordinaire, has just done a Five Books interview on insects, "May Berenbaum on bugs." (By now all of my readers should know the difference between the generic use of "bugs" as "insects," and the particular order of insects that scientists call the "true bugs"; click the link if you don't.) Several of her books are for serious insect-philes, but the book by Tom Eisner looks good.
May also reveals that one of the reasons she studies insects is that she finds them "hilarious and inspiring," as well as "endlessly entertaining." I have to say that I haven't been amused once by my Drosophila in thirty years of research, but maybe I'm just an emotionless advocate of scientism. At any rate, the interviewer asks May for her two best insect jokes. One is forgettable, but I like this one:
Which brings to mind: why don't you post your favorite science joke below? Here's one about entropy that a physicist told me: "I cleaned my room so well that a star exploded."A man walks into a doctor's office and says, “Doctor, you gotta help me. I think I'm a moth.” The doctor says, “It's clear you have a problem, but I'm a pediatrician not a psychiatrist. Why did you come here?” The man says, “The light was on.”