Where can you find a seven-inch caterpillar? What beetles produce tiny explosions to protect themselves? Which plants do grasshoppers like to eat most? Now children can find their own answers to these and loads of other questions in this creepy, crawly, and wonderfully interactive follow-up to the perennial kids' favorite Pet Bugs. More Pet Bugs introduces a new batch of fascinating bugs, all of which can be easily kept as pets. Each chapter covers a particular bug-what it looks like, where to find it, how to catch it, and how to care for it-and features tons of information about why it behaves the way it does. Kids will have a blast building a miniature home for their pet, catching a speedy water bug, learning why slugs are so slimy, and much more.

 

There are 128 pages in this book. This is a guide book. This book was published 1999 by John Wiley and Sons Ltd .

SALLY KNEIDEL, a former science teacher, has stalked bugs from the mountains of Switzerland to the tropical rainforests of Costa Rica. She is the author of several animal books, including Pet Bugs (Wiley) and Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method.

This book has the following chapters: BUGS THAT SCAVENGE OR EAT PLANTS. ; Ants. ; Earwigs. ; Grasshoppers. ; Camel Crickets or Cave Crickets. ; Milkweed Bugs. ; Box Elder Bugs. ; CATERPILLARS THAT TURN INTO MOTHS. ; Woolly Bears or Wooley Worms. ; Polyphemus Caterpillars. ; Hickory Horned Devils. ; Tomato and Tobacco Hornworms. ; BUGS THAT LIVE IN WATER. ; Dragonfly Nymphs. ; Whirligig Beetles. ; Water Scavenger Beetles. ; Water Striders. ; BUGS THAT EAT OTHER BUGS. ; Mantis Flies. ; Tiger Beetles. ; Carabid Beetles or Ground Beetles. ; BUGS THAT AREN'T INSECTS. ; American House Spiderlings. ; Slugs and Snails. ; Earthworms. ; Aquatic Planarians. ; Land Planarians. ; Crayfish. ; Appendix. ; Glossary. ; For Further Reading. ; Index.