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Eat the Beetles! An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects

David Waltner-Toews

Mention in Book: / Album, Year. All are -McCartney unless otherwise indicated. Also, I usually used the North American discography (which differs from that in the UK and Europe), unless indicated otherwise. I tried to stick with the earliest release I could find.

Cricket to Ride: an Introduction: Ticket to Ride/ Help!, 1965

Have you seen the little chiggers?: ()/ The White Album, 1968

Part I. Meet the Beetles!: Meet (Album title). Released in the US in 1964, it took songs from the 1963 UK release of , and added a few.

I Call Your Name: / The Beatles’ Second Album, 1964.

For if I ever saw you/ I didn't catch your name: / The White Album, 1968

Here, There, and Everywhere: The Problem of Numbers: Here, There and Everywhere/ Revolver, 1966.

They never give us their numbers/ They only give us their situations: You Never Give me Your Money/ , 1969

She Sometimes Gives Me Her Protein: Insects as Nutrition: You Never Give me Your Money/ Abbey Road, 1969.

The more we go inside, the more there is to see: It’s All Too Much (Harrison)/ Yellow Submarine, 1969.

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da: The Last Green Hope?: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da/ The White Album, 1968.

Happy ever after in the market place: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da/ The White Album, 1968.

Part II. : Insects and the Origins of the Modern World: Yesterday and Today (album title), 1966.

I Am the Cockroach: How Insects Created the World: / Tour, 1967.

Bugs are us and we are bugs and we are all together: I Am The Walrus/ , 1967.

Wild : How Insects Created People: / The White Album, 1968.

Picture yourself on a bug in a river: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds/ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967

Magical Mystery Tour: How Insects Sustain the World: Magical Mystery Tour/ Magical Mystery Tour, 1967.

Roll up (Bugs have everything you need), roll up for the mystery tour: Magical Mystery Tour/ Magical Mystery Tour, 1967.

Part III. I Once Had a Bug: How People Created Insects: Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)/ , 1965.

I’m Chewing Through You: Insects as Destroyers and Monsters: I’m Looking Through You/ Rubber Soul, 1965

I once had a bug, or should I say, she once had me?: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)/ Rubber Soul, 1965.

Run for Your Life: The War Against Insects and Its Consequences: Run for Your Life/ Rubber Soul, 1965. This chapter also refers to “I've Just Seen a Face” from the same album.

The way things are going, they’re going to pesticide me: The Ballad of John and Yoko (Lennon but attributed to Lennon-McCartney)/ Released as a single in 1969 and on Lennon’s 1988 album Imagine.

Part IV. Black Fly Singing: Reimagining Insects: Blackbird/ The White Album, 1966.

Mother Mary Comes to Me: Insects as Creators and Bodhisattvas: / Let It Be, 1970. One could also see this as a more oblique reference to , which was released as a single in 1968.

We’re in and it’s a buggy day: / Revolver, 1966.

Can’t Buy Me Bugs: A New Age of Negotiation: Can’t Buy Me Love/ A Hard Day’s Night, 1964.

The ladybug beetle is a pretty fine bug (and she really has a lot to say): Her Majesty/ Abbey Road, 1969.

Part V. Got to Get You Into My Life: Got to Get You Into My Life/ Revolver, 1965.

Leaving the West Behind? Entomophagy in Transition in Non-Western Cultures: Back in the USSR/ The White Album, 1968.

Those bamboo worms really knock me out: Back in the USSR/ The White Album, 1968.

She Came in Through the Kitchen Window: Culinary Renewal from the Margins: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window/ Abbey Road, 1969

Cool stink bug cream and a nice weevil tart, I feel your taste all the time we’re apart: (Harrison)/ The White Album, 1968.

She Came in Through the Chicken Window: Insects as Feed in Non-Insect-Eating Cultures: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window/ Abbey Road, 1969

We may not see them, but they are here: You Won’t See Me/ Rubber Soul, 1965.

A Cook with Kaleidoscope Eyes: Insects on the Menu: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds/ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967.

I wanna be your flan: / Meet the Beatles, 1964.

Part VI. Revolution 1: Revolution 1/ The White Album, 1968.

It’s So Hard (Loving You): Ethics and Insects: It’s Only Love/ Help, 1965.

Boy, you’re gonna : Carry That Weight/ Abbey Road, 1969

A Little Help: Regulating Entomophagy: With a Little Help from My Friends/ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967.

You say you’ve got a real solution. Well, you know, we’d all love to see the plan: Revolution 1/ The White Album, 1968.

All You Need is Love? Renegotiating the Human–Insect Contract: / Yellow Submarine, 1967.

Are we happy just to dance?: I’m happy just to dance with you/ A Hard Days Night, 1964.

We Were Talking: Where Is This Going?: (Harrison)/ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, 1967.

Crickets and this guy with diamonds: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds/ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967

Part VII. : Revolution 9/ The White Album, 1968.

Imagine: Beetles, Entomophagy, and the Meaning of Life: Imagine (Lennon)/ Imagine, 1988.