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

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...