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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At a secret laboratory devoted to the peacful coexistence of human and insects, the fate of the insect world hangs in the balance of ten-year-old Eden who can speak to insects and nine-year-old August, a bullied fourth grader who wants to squash everything.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom, and they live everywhere. Most of us think life would be better without bugs. In fact, life would be impossible without them. Without the pinhead-sized chocolate midge, cocoa flowers would not pollinate. The fruit fly is essential to medical and biological research experiments. Insects turn dead plants and animals into soil. They control organisms that are harmful to humans. Sverdrup-Thygeson shows...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
With ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson as our intrepid guide, Extraordinary Insects is an enthusiastic, witty, and fascinating introduction to the world of insects and why we -- an the planet we inhabit -- could not survive without them. Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere -- deep inside caves, high in the Himalayas, inside computers, in Yellowstone's hot springs, and in the ears and nostrils of much larger creatures....
10) Bugging out
Author
Series
Monsters unleashed) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When his town is infested by a swarm of self-replicating, man-eating bugs, Freddie Liddle and his friends set out to stop the 3D printed insects before they devour everything in sight.
Author
Publisher
Filbert Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Get ready for the shocking truth about botanical sex. Who knew that bee orchids trick insects into having sex with them, avocado flowers are female one day and male the next, and some flowers are the insect equivalent of nightclubs where males and females meet and mate? Bestselling author Mike Allaby reveals over 200 of nature's most unseemly creations in this sensational expose.
12) A web
Author
Publisher
Peter Pauper Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Follows a spider as it collects items to decorate its web from a landscape filled with insects, leaves, flowers, feathers, and seeds, all labeled for identification.
13) Hatch
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fans left desperate for more at the end of Bloom will dive into this second book of the Overthrow trilogy--where the danger mounts and alien creatures begin to hatch. First the rain brought seeds. Seeds that grew into alien plants that burrowed and strangled and fed. Seth, Anaya, and Petra are strangely immune to the plants' toxins and found a way to combat them. But just as they have their first success, the rain begins again. This rain brings eggs....
14) The mosquito
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Hilarious illustrated nonfiction about mosquitos perfect for beginning readers. Conversational text and silly illustrations will have you up all night reading about the most annoying bug on Earth!"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong"--
Author
Series
Bug Man novel volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
While investigating the murder of an organic farmer in North Carolina, Dr. Nick Polchack finds an infestation of diseased insects, a discovery that leads him to an agricultural scheme to cripple the U.S.'s ethanol production.
19) Sunny days
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rhyming couplets celebrate the activities made possible by sunny weather from a preschooler's perspective. Mixed-media collage art shows small children engaging in a range of outdoor activities, including gardening, making mud pies, swimming, observing insects, and picking wildflowers. A final page includes age-appropriate STEM activities related to the sun."--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wicked Bugs: The Meanest, Deadliest, Grossest Bugs on Earth is a middle-grade adaptation of Amy Stewart's Wicked Bugs that features profiles of the world's scariest, deadliest, and grossest bugs, from the most painful hornet to flies that transmit deadly diseases to millipedes that stop traffic, to "bookworms" that devour libraries. With its featured bugs organized by categories that match the upper elementary science curriculum, this humorous, fascinating,...
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