Buz, or The Life and Adventures of a Honey Bee 
by Maurice Noel (1898)

The Children’s Life of the Bee 
by Maurice Maeterlinck (1919)

A Year Among the Bees 
by C. C. Miller (1891)
A bee-keeper’s experience

The Bee-keeper’s Manual 
by Henry Taylor (1860)
A practical guide to beekeeping

Nature Biographies 
by Clarence Weed (1901)
The lives of everyday butterflies, moths, grasshoppers and flies

A Little Gateway to Science: Hexapod Stories 
by Edith Patch (1920)

The Butterfly Hunters 
by Helen Conant (1875)

Butterflies and Moths Shown to Children 
by Janet Kelman (1910)
Although it’s a guide to British butterflies, there are beautiful butterflies to look at and it has a good introduction to butterflies.

Insect Lives 
by Julia Ballard (1879)

Spiders 
by T. B. Kurata (1949)

Insect Adventures 
by Jean-Henri Fabre (1917)

Fabre’s Book of Insects 
by Jean-Henri Fabre (1921)

Insect Stories 
by Vernon Kellogg (1908)

Little Busybodies 
by Jeannette Marks (1909)
Lives of crickets, ants, bees, beetles and others

Scenes of Industry 
by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1830)
Stories of bee-hives and ant-hills

The Population of an Old Pear Tree; or Stories of Insect Life (1870)

The Wonders of Instinct 
by Jean Fabre (1918)
Advanced ideas on the psychology of insects

Insect Biographies With Pen and Camera 
by John Ward (1914)

The Handbook of Nature Study 
by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)

Short Stories of Our Shy Neighbors 
by Meriba Kelly

Look About Club 
by Mary Bamford