Machine generated contents note: 1.Fragile Bodies, Cross-species Empathy and Suspended Allegories: `It hurt, it was painful -- that's all there is to say' -- 2.Anthropomorphism and the `Ends of Man' in the Anthropocene: `My chimp nature' -- 3.Telling Nonhuman Stories: `The secret contours of objects' -- 4.The Sexual Politics of Nature Writing and Lepidoptery: `The siren song of entomology' -- 5.Insect Ethics and Aesthetics: `Their blood does not stain our hands'.