The GIANT (Yet Tiny) Book on Insects-Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers
The GIANT (Yet Tiny) Book on Insects-Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers
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Table of Contents
Introduction ..........................................................................................6
What Are Bees?....................................................................................7
Facts About Bees..................................................................................9
Options for treating bee stings............................................................10
The Life Cycle of a Bee .....................................................................11
Why Are Bees So Important to Humans? ..........................................14
Types of Bees.....................................................................................15
Carpenter bees....................................................................................15
Africanized honey bees......................................................................16
Bumble Bees ......................................................................................18
Yellow Jackets....................................................................................19
The Bee Hive......................................................................................20
The Honey Bee Colony ......................................................................22
The Royal Queen................................................................................24
Bee Keeping .......................................................................................26
Tips for Preventing Attacks................................................................28
Harvesting Honey...............................................................................31
What is Pollen and Pollination? .........................................................33
Flowers That Attract Bees..................................................................36
All about Wasps.................................................................................40
What is a wasp?..................................................................................41
What kinds of wasps are there?..........................................................46
The history of wasps and humans ......................................................49
Yellow jacket......................................................................................53
Hornet.................................................................................................56
Fig wasp .............................................................................................58
A little more on wasps........................................................................60
All about Butterfies............................................................................61
Butterflies Beautiful Insects...............................................................63
Anatomy of a Butterfly ......................................................................65
Life Cycle of a Butterfly ....................................................................67
Butterflies Habitat ..............................................................................70
What Do Butterflies Eat? ...................................................................72
Can Butterflies Communicate? ..........................................................74
Butterflies and Pollination..................................................................75
Monarch Butterfly and Migration ......................................................77
Butterfly Species ................................................................................80
Butterfly Meanings in Different Cultures ..........................................83
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Butterfly Facts....................................................................................85
A little more on butterflies .................................................................87
Ladybugs............................................................................................88
What are ladybugs? ............................................................................90
Anatomy of a ladybug ........................................................................93
Ladybug romance ...............................................................................95
How to spot different types of ladybugs ............................................97
Are ladybugs helpful? ........................................................................99
Why do ladybugs smell when they are crushed? .............................100
How to get rid of ladybugs...............................................................101
How did the humble ladybug get her name?....................................104
Ladybugs in the farming field ..........................................................106
Ladybugs and tree diseases of the forest..........................................108
Ladybugs around the globe and in your backyard ...........................110
Seasons for ladybugs........................................................................113
A little more on ladybugs.................................................................115
Classification of the scorpion...........................................................117
Description of a scorpion .................................................................118
The behavior of the scorpions, .........................................................119
Habitats of the scorpions..................................................................120
Biology of the scorpion ....................................................................123
Scorpion Body Parts.....................................................................123
Parts of the body...........................................................................123
Scorpion Anatomy............................................................................126
Reproduction ....................................................................................128
Food habits of the scorpions.............................................................131
Some deadly species of scorpions....................................................133
Scorpions and humans......................................................................139
Myths and stories about scorpions ...................................................141
Introduction to Spiders.....................................................................143
10 Facts About Spiders ....................................................................145
Spider Eggs ......................................................................................147
Spider Anatomy................................................................................149
Spider Habitat...................................................................................151
Spider Silk........................................................................................153
Spider Webs - For Catching Prey.....................................................155
Spider Senses....................................................................................157
Spider Bites......................................................................................158
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Types of Spiders...............................................................................159
Spider Identification.........................................................................161
Black Widow Spiders.......................................................................162
Crab Spider.......................................................................................164
Baby Spiders ....................................................................................166
Brown Recluse Spiders ....................................................................168
Funnel Spider ...................................................................................170
Tarantula Spiders..............................................................................172
Jumping Spiders...............................................................................174
World’s Most Poisonous..................................................................176
Conclusion........................................................................................178
Publisher...........................................................................................184
Introduction
There are more insects on this planet than anything else. They are so
tiny, and do not take up much space. Let's learn about a few of the
most common insects.