Glausiusz says she and Volker first came to know one another as a result of the article "Dining on the Fly" that appeared in Discover magazine (Feb. 1998). Volker had sent the magazine an extraordinary set of never-before-published electron micrographs that showed various insects in the act of eating one another. "The then editor of Discover, Marc Zabludoff, liked the pictures so much that he decided to print them and asked me to write the accompanying text. I did so, and found the experience of working with Volker a highly rewarding one. Later, when Volker decided to publish an entire book of his insect shots, he asked me to compose the text."