Olaf Stapledon incorporates insectoids in his 1937 Star Maker novel. In the pulp fiction novels, insectoid creatures were frequently used as the antagonists threatening the damsel in distress. Notable later depictions of hostile insect aliens include the antagonistic "Arachnids", or "Bugs", in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers (1959) and  the "buggers" in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series (from 1985).
Olaf Stapledon's "Star Maker" (1937) featured insectoid creatures, and the trope of insect aliens as antagonists has been popularized by authors like Robert A. Heinlein ("Starship Troopers") and Orson Scott Card ("Ender's Game").