Looking at Insects

by David Suzuki

Overview

Penned by a renowned naturalist, scientist and TV personality, it explores the fascinating world of insects. Packed with illustrations and full of &‘grave;amazing facts'' about moths, butterflies, bees, beetles, ants, spiders and many more of nature's smaller creatures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471547471
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/16/1992
Series:	David Suzuki's Looking at
Edition description:	1st U.S. ed
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.41(w) x 8.56(h) x 0.52(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

David Takayoshi Suzuki CC OBC FRSC is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001.

Table of Contents

THE WORLD OF INSECTS.

A Small, Strange World.

Have You Ever Met a Morphosis?.

How Insects Defend Themselves.

How Insects See and Sense Things.

Friends or Enemies?.

INSECT ORDERS.

Moths and Butterflies: Backyard Ballerinas.

Beetles Are Everywhere!.

Bees: Flowers' Best Friends.

Ants: The Non-Stop Workers.

SPIDERS: INSECTS' RELATIVES.

Spiders: Web-Spinning Wizards.

Index.