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Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn everything you need to know about starting an insect collection and making your own observations about your local environment. Discover how to start a collection of preserved insects using materials you probably already have at home. From nets to aspirators to pitfall traps, you'll have everything you need.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions. Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter landscape to the chemical composition that...
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing, an imprint of Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Some forest bugs may be freaky, but they're also fascinating! Readers are introduced to creepy crawling critters and bugs in this volume about insects that live in forest environments. They learn the specific roles various insects play in a forest ecosystem"--Provided by publisher.
5) How insects work: an illustrated guide to the wonders of form and function : from antenna to wings
Author
Series
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated handbook on insects that explores in detail their anatomical makeup and evolutionary history to explain their form and function and their place in the natural world"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom, and they live everywhere. Most of us think life would be better without bugs. In fact, life would be impossible without them. Without the pinhead-sized chocolate midge, cocoa flowers would not pollinate. The fruit fly is essential to medical and biological research experiments. Insects turn dead plants and animals into soil. They control organisms that are harmful to humans. Sverdrup-Thygeson shows...
9) I like bugs
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In brief rhyming text, lists all the types of insects the narrator likes.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
With ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson as our intrepid guide, Extraordinary Insects is an enthusiastic, witty, and fascinating introduction to the world of insects and why we -- an the planet we inhabit -- could not survive without them. Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere -- deep inside caves, high in the Himalayas, inside computers, in Yellowstone's hot springs, and in the ears and nostrils of much larger creatures....
Author
Series
I can read book; reading with help volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
As Grasshopper sets out to follow a road, he meets some unusual characters.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs -- there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an offbeat scientific journey that weaves together history, travel, and culture to explore our relationship with these mini-monsters." -- From book jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Earth is threatened by an invading race of bugs called the Hunger, 11-year-old Finn, his arch-nemesis, Lincoln, his crush, Julep, and one pink unicorn lunchbox become Earth's last best hope against destruction"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
These two fascinating novellas, like A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. "Morpho Eugenia" is a lively Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society - the capture and taming of nature, whether it be a young woman in a country house...
Author
Series
Tim Possible volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Tim and Tito and the time-traveling T-Rex named Oskar find themselves in the middle of an insect invasion, with bugs wanting to finally turn the tables--and use super-size fly swatters on humans! With their hometown in total chaos, it is up to Tim and Tito to stand up to the brainiac insects and tell them to bug off!
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
20) A web
Author
Publisher
Peter Pauper Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Follows a spider as it collects items to decorate its web from a landscape filled with insects, leaves, flowers, feathers, and seeds, all labeled for identification.
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