Insects Are My Life
Author: Megan McDonald
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780531070932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo one at home or school understands Amanda Frankenstein's devotion to insects until she meets Maggie.
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The Life of Insects
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780571194056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics. With consummate literary skill Pelevin creates a satirical bestiary which is as realistic as it is delirious - a bitter parable of contemporary Russia, full of the probing, disenchanted comedy that makes Pelevin a vital and altogether surprising writer.
Bugs in My Hair!
Author: David Shannon
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-09-27
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1338137786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs something bugging you? Bestselling award-winner David Shannon shows the funny side of waging war against -- oh no! -- head lice. This book is guaranteed to make you laugh -- and itch! From the opening picture of a happy, oversized louse appearing with his suitcases, you know these bugs are determined to stay, and Mom is about to go nuts! Nobody talks about them, but they are everywhere. (Some estimate 20 million children a year host them.) Oh the shame and humiliation of having bugs in your hair! But if you go to school, or have play dates, chances are good you might meet them someday. Maybe you already have! Lucky for you, the unwelcome bugs in this story are so funny you will be laughing aloud -- even when Mom attacks them with battle-tested anti-lice weapons.Shannon peppers his hilarious scenes with fun, "nitpicking" facts about these "lousy" critters and pokes fun at common denial: "It's probably ash from that volcano in Pogo Pogo."Soon the party's over -- Bye bye, Little Nasties! Once again Shannon has created a fresh, highly entertaining read-aloud classic that begs to be read again and again.
Amazing Insects and Spiders
Author: George McGavin
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780836888997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the different kinds of insects and spiders and their life cycles, habitats, diet, and homes.
Crickwing
Author: Janell Cannon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780152050610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Oddball Artist's Epic Adventure
The Life-size Guide to Insects & Other Land Invertebrates of New Zealand
Author: Andrew Crowe
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780140283457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifying New Zealand's insects, spiders and other land invertebrates is made simple with this new guide. Over 300 life-size colour photographs make it fun for all the family to learn more about the natural world of New Zealand.
Insect Life Cycles
Author: Molly Aloian
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780778723431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief introduction to insects, discussing their characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and predators.
Still Life with Insects
Author: Brian Kiteley
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 1619026503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1989 by Ticknor & Fields, Brian Kiteley's Still Life with Insects is the intensely focused chronicle of Elwyn Farmer, an amateur entomologist, who uses the field notes of his insect sightings to examine and reweave the tattered fragments of his life. In a series of visually powerful and emotionally breathtaking vignettes Kiteley distills the transient beauty of the natural world and lays bare the suffering and joy of one man's life from his maturity in the post–war years to very old age in the 19809's. His striking narrative technique aptly captures the experience we all have as we struggle to make sense of what it means to be human in the face of the inevitable passage of time.
Rebugging the Planet
Author: Vicki Hird
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1645020193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a lovely little book that could and should have a big impact...Let’s all get rebugging right away!"—Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Meet the intelligent insects, marvelous minibeasts, and inspirational invertebrates that help shape our planet—and discover how you can help them help us by rebugging your attitude today! Remember when there were bugs on your windshield? Ever wonder where they went? We need to act now if we are to help the insects survive. Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Attenborough, and Elizabeth Kolbert are but a few voices championing the rewilding of our world. Rebugging the Planet explains how we are headed toward “insectageddon” with a rate of insect extinction eight times faster than that of mammals or birds, and gives us crucial information to help all those essential creepy-crawlies flourish once more. Author Vicki Hird passionately demonstrates how insects and invertebrates are the cornerstone of our global ecosystem. They pollinate plants, feed birds, support and defend our food crops, and clean our water systems. They are also beautiful, inventive, and economically invaluable—bees, for example, contribute an estimated $235 to $577 billion to the US economy annually, according to Forbes. Rebugging the Planet shows us small changes we can make to have a big impact on our littlest allies: Learn how to rewild parks, schools, sidewalks, roadsides, and other green spaces. Leave your garden to grow a little wild and plant weedkiller-free, wildlife-friendly plants. Take your kids on a minibeast treasure hunt and learn how to build bug palaces. Make bug-friendly choices with your food and support good farming practices Begin to understand how reducing inequality and poverty will help nature and wildlife too—it’s all connected. So do your part and start rebugging today! The bees, ants, earthworms, butterflies, beetles, grasshoppers, ladybugs, snails, and slugs will thank you—and our planet will thank you too.
Extraordinary Insects
Author: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-04-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780008316372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. Out of sight, underfoot, unseen beyond fleeting scuttles or darting flights, insects occupy a hidden world, yet are essential to sustaining life on earth. Insects influence our ecosystem like a ripple effect on water. They arrived when life first moved to dry land, they preceded - and survived - the dinosaurs, they outnumber the grains of sand on all the world's beaches, and they will be here long after us. Working quietly but tirelessly, they give us food, uphold our ecosystems, can heal our wounds and even digest plastic. They could also provide us with new solutions to the antibiotics crisis, assist in disaster zones and inspire airforce engineers with their flying techniques. But their private lives are also full of fun, intrigue and wonder -musical mating rituals; house-hunting for armies of beetle babies; metamorphosing into new characters; throwing parties in fermenting sap; cultivating fungi for food; farming smaller species for honey dew and always ensuring that what is dead is decomposed, ready to become life once again. Here, we will discover life and death, drama and dreams, all on a millimetric scale. Like it or not, Earth is the planet of insects, and this is their extraordinary story.
