Explores how the insect world accomplishes tasks with human-like precision in spite of very different mental processes, covering such topics as insect personality, communication, and adaptability.

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? -- Six legs and a genome -- The inner lives of wasps -- Seinfeld and the queen -- Sperm and eggs on six legs -- So two fruit flies go into a bar -- Parenting and the rotten corpse -- Pirates at the picnic -- Six-legged language.