Entomological Law: A Field Map of Insects as Evidence, Threat, Property, Product, Patient, and Weapon

A Source-Anchored Map of Entomological Law There is no statute, treatise, or law-school casebook titled "Entomological Law." The phrase names a synthetic field — the convergence zone where the six-legged world repeatedly forces the legal system to answer questions it was not designed for: Can a fly testify? Who owns a swarm? Is a bumblebee a fish? Can you patent a mosquito? May a court excommunicate a weevil? Does a cricket suffer? May insects be used in war? This reference compiles that field as a machine-readable and reproducible artifact organized around the legal role an insect occupies in a given dispute. It encodes 8 legal roles — witness, regulated threat, protected subject, property, invention, defendant, moral patient, and weapon — and binds to them 18 landmark decisions, 43 statutes and treaties across 9 categories and 10 jurisdictions, 24 insect taxa, 13 certifying and regulat