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Discusses the life cycles and life styles of insects, including such varieties as the grasshoppers, dragonflies, flies, beetles, true bugs, moths, butterflies, ants, bees, wasps, and termites.
| Insects | 4 | |
| At-a-Glance | ||
| What do 900,000 different kinds of insects have in common? | ||
| Swoop and Scoop | 6 | |
| Q & A | ||
| The life of a dragonfly is anything but boring | ||
| It starts life in the water, and, by the time it grows up, it's an aerial acrobat | ||
| My, How You've Changed | 8 | |
| Timeline | ||
| Follow the courses of two insects from birth to adulthood | ||
| The different paths they take may surprise you | ||
| We Are the World | 10 | |
| Almanac | ||
| The numbers don't lie--insects dominate | ||
| Food Stuff | 12 | |
| Picture This | ||
| How do they eat that stuff? | ||
| Insects have developed an array of characteristics that allow them to find a meal in the strangest places | ||
| Dressing for Success | 14 | |
| Amazing but True | ||
| Predators are a problem | ||
| To ward them off, lots of insects use camouflage to escape notice; others display colorful features that say "back off." | ||
| Doing Good Works | 16 | |
| Scrapbook | ||
| They're not all pests--not by a long shot | ||
| Many insects work to help us out | ||
| High Society | 18 | |
| Virtual Voyage | ||
| Enter a whole new world when you take a trip through a mud tower that five million termites call home | ||
| Making Cockroaches a Career | 20 | |
| Scientist's Notebook | ||
| Berta Scharrer realized cock-roaches were ideal specimens for studying the brain and the nervous system | ||
| Don't Bug Me, PLEASE | 22 | |
| Map | ||
| Insects and humans don't always get along | ||
| Destructive conflicts have taken place all over the world | ||
| Forward March | 24 | |
| Eyewitness Account | ||
| The way army ants behave in a fictional story is based on fact | ||
| The Case of the Fossil Filcher | 26 | |
| Solve-It-Yourself Mystery | ||
| A museum's collection of fossilized insects has been stolen--or has it? | ||
| A detective is suspicious when he hears that the missing goods have been recovered | ||
| Should he call off the search? | ||
| Making a Home | 28 | |
| Heroes | ||
| An interesting job turned Arthur Bonner's life around | ||
| Now he's working against the odds to restore the dwindling blue butterfly population | ||
| Bug Bites | 30 | |
| Fun & Fantastic | ||
| Fascinating facts and some scary-looking pictures expose the wild side of the insect world | ||
| Final Project: Bug Biographies | 32 | |
| Your World, Your Turn | ||
| You don't need to leave the school yard to observe insects up close | ||
| Take a walk | ||
| You may be in for some surprises |
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