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1) Ladybugs
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Description
"This new and updated edition presents the latest scientific information on ladybugs in language accessible for young readers through bright illustrations, informative diagrams, and easy-to-read text. Kids will rethink what they know about the little red bug while being introduced to biology vocabulary and environmentalism. See the ladybug grow from an egg to an adult. Explore just some of the different colorings and markings from the thousands of...
4) Metropolis
Series
Publication Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (29 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
This series explores insect behavior and society. The fifth episode investigates the complex and ingenious structures devised, built and maintained by social insects.
6) Replicators
Publication Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (29 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
This series explores insect behavior and society. Insects exist to make more insects. The second episode in this series investigates the lengths to which an insect will go to attract a mate and reproduce.
7) Voyagers
Publication Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (29 min., 23 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
This series explores insect behavior and society. The fourth episode investigates how they thrive in diverse habitats from the open ocean to the harshest deserts, from freezing mountain-tops to a 2,000 degree blast furnace.
9) Bug bonanza!
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Series
Publication Date
2023.
Description
"How do bees fly? Why does a spider weave a web? And why are bugs so important to our world? Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more."-- Amazon.com
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Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
pages cm
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"A devastating exploration of how the collapse in insect populations around the world threatens everything from wild birds to the food on our plate. From the ants scurrying under leaf litter to the bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are seemingly everywhere. Three out of four of the planet's known species are insects, but a torrent of recent evidence suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential...
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Series
Billy Forrester books volume 1
Description
Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
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Publication Date
c2012
Description
All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry,...
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
xv, 341 p. : ill., maps.
Description
The intimate associations between plants and the insects that eat them have helped define and shape both groups for millions of years. This pioneering volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. Chapters focus on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels...
