 Zherikhin was one of the lead authors of the multi-authored monograph "Historical development of the class Insecta" edited by his long term collaborators Boris Borisovitsch Rohdendorf and Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn, as well as the much expanded English language "History of Insects", to which he contributed chapters on the patterns of insect burial (taphonomy), past terrestrial ecology, trace fossils, and on thrips and praying mantids.From 1970 Zherikhin organized field trips to collect fossil insects, and particularly those in Cretaceous and Palaeogene fossil resins, to northernmost Siberia (Taimyr Peninsula), the Russian Far East, and the Caucasus.The objective was to explore changes in the insect world around the Meso-Cenozoic boundary.