A spectacular collection of the weird and wonderful world of creepy crawlies. There are all kinds of bugs lurking in your backyard. Take a close-up peek at the alien-like beasties that are living right under your nose! Stunning images from scanning electron microscopes give a close-up view of incredible minibeasts, revealing every hair on the back of a flea, the beautiful scales on a moth's wing, and the amazing compound eye of a fly. Discover what a fly likes to eat and how it digests its food or how a pond skater can skim across the surface of water. Learn how a colony of ants communicates, and find out if your garden might be home to the fastest beetle in the world.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Creature Of the .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-10 years.

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by QED Publishing .

This book has the following chapters:

Introduction - Water Bear - Earthworm - Snail - Silverfish
Dragonfly - Grasshopper - Earwig - Stick Insect - Praying Mantid
Cockroach - Termite - Common Aphid - Giant Water Bug - Froghopper
Ladybird - Robber Fly - Flea - Stag beetle - Cockchafer - Tiger Beetle
Centipede- Stink Bug - Pond Skater - Cicada - Bluebottle - Mosquito
Spider - Ant - Honey Bee - Hawk Moth - Monarch Butterfly
Fruit fly - Crane fly - Tick - Glossary - Index