The text is set up as an A-Z compendium of human-insect relations. The chapter lengths vary, from just a few pages to over a dozen. The text does ask for other ways of reading. It does not have to be read sequentially, but can be read in any order. The layout performs an argument that it is impossible to capture the depth and breadth of human-insect relations in a modernist form like the encyclopedia, as the A-Z structure breaks down the further into the alphabet that you go.
