Peter Powers and the Itchy Insect Invasion!
Peter Powers and the Itchy Insect Invasion!

Author: Kent Clark

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0316359491

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If you like the Avengers, Justice League, or The Incredibles, then you'll love this family of superheroes! This new chapter book series is perfect for reluctant readers. Everyone in Peter Powers' family has super awesome superpowers--except Peter. All he can do is make ice cubes and freeze little stuff. He's also afraid of insects. (And why wouldn't he be? The pests are creepy and crawly and like to bite.) Too bad, two new villains have come to town, bringing swarms of bugs with them. With the town overrun by hordes of insects, will Peter be able to chill out and conquer his fear? Or will he let the insects--and his fears--get the best of him? Join Peter Powers and his fantastic family for their third action-packed and fun-filled adventure to find out! Peter Powers and the Itchy Insect Invasion is the third story in a new chapter book series about a young boy who has the worst superpower ever. Each story is full of humor, action, and fun--but the charm can be found in the heartfelt message about the power of family, friends, and having confidence.

Insect Invasion
Insect Invasion

Author: Geronimo Stilton

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781338116618

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Mighty mozzarella! A swarm of hungry insects is chewing up everything in Muskrat City. Even Superstilton's and Swiftpaw's capes have more holes in them than two slices of Swiss! Can the Heromice figure out who's behind the insect invasion? And can these bad bugs be stopped before they take over the city?

Invasion of the Insects
Invasion of the Insects

Author: Ada Hopper

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 148147118X

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In this sixth DATA Set adventure the kids get shrunk down and go on a buggy adventure across Bunsen’s backyard. The town of Newtonburg has been invaded by all sorts of creepy-crawlies from mosquitoes to bees to ants and more! What’s worse is that they are all mysteriously swarming toward Dr. Bunsen’s house at the same time that Laura mistakenly gets shrunken down to the size of an insect. Can the DATA Set find their missing friend in time, or will Laura be forever lost in Dr. Bunsen’s backyard…which is full of grasshoppers, spiders, and things that go buzz in the night! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The DATA Set chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.

Locust
Locust

Author: Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2009-04-28

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0786738871

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Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country." From the Dakotas to Texas, from California to Iowa, the swarms pushed thousands of settlers to the brink of starvation, prompting the federal government to enlist some of the greatest scientific minds of the day and thereby jumpstarting the fledgling science of entomology. Over the next few decades, the Rocky Mountain locust suddenly -- and mysteriously -- vanished. A century later, Jeffrey Lockwood set out to discover why. Unconvinced by the reigning theories, he searched for new evidence in musty books, crumbling maps, and crevassed glaciers, eventually piecing together the elusive answer: A group of early settlers unwittingly destroyed the locust's sanctuaries just as the insect was experiencing a natural population crash. Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Locust brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest ecological mysteries of our time.

Biotic Borders
Biotic Borders

Author: Jeannie N. Shinozuka

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-04-20

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0226817334

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"This timely book reveals how the increase in traffic of transpacific plants, insects, and peoples raised fears of a "biological yellow peril" beginning in the late nineteenth century, when mass quantities of nursery stock and other agricultural products were shipped from large, corporate nurseries in Japan to meet the growing demand for exotics in the United States. Jeannie Shinozuka marshals extensive research to explain how the categories of "native" and "invasive" defined groups as bio-invasions that must be regulated-or somehow annihilated-during a period of American empire-building. Shinozuka shows how the modern fixation on foreign species provided a linguistic and conceptual arsenal for anti-immigration movements that gained ground in the early twentieth century. Xenophobia fed concerns about biodiversity, and in turn facilitated the implementation of plant quarantine measures while also valuing, and devaluing, certain species over others. The emergence and rise of economic entomology and plant pathology alongside public health and anti-immigration movements was not merely coincidental. Ultimately, what this book unearths is that the inhumane and unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II cannot, and should not, be disentangled from this longer history"--

Biological Invasions and Global Insect Decline
Biological Invasions and Global Insect Decline

Author: Jonatan Rodríguez

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2023-09-13

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0323985440

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Biological Invasions and Global Insect Decline offers the most updated knowledge on how invasive alien species affect insect diversity worldwide. The book provides ongoing research and the most relevant information, covering the main aspects of the impact of biological invasions as well as future insights on mitigation and consequences. It discusses how the introduction of all kinds of organisms, from bacteria and plants to vertebrates, affect current declines in insect diversity. The latter portion of the book delves into existent and future monitoring and management programs, including citizen science and regenerative ecology as socio-ecological solutions to combat these threats. Written and edited by international experts on invasion ecology and insect conservation, this book explores the role of global change and the introduction of invasive species in altering the structure of habitats and how this induces a global insect decline. This will be a valuable resource for entomologists, invasion biologists and other researchers in biodiversity conservation, as well as practitioners and stakeholders concerned about problematic invasive alien species and insect population decline. - Offers a concise vision of one of the main causes of insect extinctions in the Anthropocene - Discusses community ecology, insect conservation, species interactions, restoration ecology - Led by a team of editors whose expertise includes invasive alien species, invasion ecology, insect species diversity, and species conservation

Invasion of the Giant Bugs
Invasion of the Giant Bugs

Author: A. J. Wood

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780694009060

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When something goes wrong with their spaceship, Professor Sponge, his grandchildren, Max and Lucy, and Soap, the space dog, land on a planet filled with huge insect combatants