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Enjoy and Learn! Expert Knowledge! Easy-to-Read! This handy guide to the most common, important and showy North American insects will help the novice begin a fascinating study. Includes: A key to insect groups Mature and immature forms How insects grow and develop and what they eat How to find and observe them Full color pictures, nontechnical language, and up-to-date range maps make this a gem of a guide for beginners at any age.

A completely up-to-date introduction to the most common group of bees in Britain. Bees, for most people, mean honey or bumble bees, but in fact these social species make up only a small proportion of the species that live in Britain. Open your eyes to the so-called 'solitary' bees, and discover a wonderfully diverse population—miners, leafcutters, carpenters and masons—many of which can be found in your own back garden. Solitary bees come in a...

Insects are the most extreme organisms on Earth and, despite their diminutive size, they wield inordinate power. With the exception of the polar icecaps, every terrestrial ecosystem on earth is colonized by them, and they account for almost three-quarters of all named animals - that's one million species at the last count! This book is a celebration of the insect universe, exploring their amazing forms and functions, their fascinating behavior and...

Ants are unique insects that live a lot like humans do. They have homes, communities, and a defense system against attacks. Ants also have jobs, as caretakers, builders, rulers, and soldiers. Using vivid photographs and easy-to-understand text, this book explores ant life and introduces young readers to ants' unique features, such as their small, spindly legs, their seemingly super strength, and protective measures they take against predators, including...

Some crawl. Some jump really high. Some have beautiful wings! What do you know about bugs? With this book, you can become an expert! Kids love to be the experts! Now they can feel like real pros with this exciting nonfiction series for beginning readers. Kids will be hooked on the thrilling real-world topics and big, bright photos. Each book features simple sentences and sight words that children can practice reading. Then, with support, kids can...

Pretty ladybugs illustrate this counting book. Using large type, sight words, and short sentences, young children learn to count. On the left side of each spread, a yummy ice cream cone attracts first one, then two ladybugs. Soon beginning readers are counting one to ten.

To ensure the presence, long and productive lives of beeswe must be kind to themby providing a friendly habitat.Building hives and having natural settings,like logs, and old trees,will keep them safe and warm.Growing a variety of flowering plantsthat bloom throughout all seasonswill enable them to collect nectar and pollen.Honeybees are not the only one pollinators.That delicate job is also done by butterflies,bumblebees, hornets, flies, ants,mosquitos,...

In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle-the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experience this great sonic invasion compare their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse. This unending rhythmic cycle is just one unique example of how the pulse and noise of insects has taught humans the meaning of rhythm, from the whirr of a cricket's...

We've all heard of the Itsy-Bitsy Spider right? But have you heard of the the Hugely-Wugely Spider? He's just like Itsy-Bitsy except he's a little-no-a lot bigger. The Hugely-Wugely Spider went up the water spout, well not really, because he wasn't invited by the other spiders. And maybe because his size was bit of an issue . . . But that didn't stop him from trying. The Itsy-Bitsy Spider and his friends get into a bind when down comes the rain...

In a world all too familiar with environmental disasters, Horst Kornberger argues that the bee crisis is a more significant problem than deforestation, pollution and global warming put together, as it points to the causes behind all these. Global Hive is a rallying cry for a new understanding of world ecology. More than a study of bees, this book offers both an entirely new way of thinking about the bee crisis and its causes, and a way to use the...