Become a rock hound with this field guide for kids ages 7 to 10 The world of rocks and minerals is massive, amazing, and full of cool new things to uncover! My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals teaches you the skills you need to collect, identify, and catalog your own treasures. Explore 150 different rocks and minerals, and get step-by-step guidelines for testing and identifying the ones you encounter out in the field. There's also plenty of notebook space so you can record data about your finds. So get out there, gather cool looking samples, and discover what they are! My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals includes: An intro to earth science—Explore the layers of the earth, how rocks and minerals are formed, the periodic table, and more essential information for young scientists. Handy fact sheets—Learn more about all kinds of unique rocks and minerals with fact sheets that are conveniently organized to help with identification. A field notebook—Record all your rock-hunting sample data on pages that include cut-out numbers for cataloging. Identify and catalog rocks and minerals with this fascinating field guide that has everything you need to get started.

A comprehensive guide to the insects of North America contains information--including life histories, behaviors, and habitats--on every major group of insects found north of Mexico.

The most comprehensive guide to insects in the Great Lakes region

This is the first comprehensive field guide to the insect fauna of South Africa, with detailed descriptions of over 1 200 of the most common, most economically and ecologically important, and most interesting and attractive insects in the region. The easy-to-read text is matched with superb photography. Each account covers identification, biology, distribution and related species, and is accompanied by a colour photograph of the species or family.

Text and pictures combine to present 579 insect families.

Also includes material on proturans, springtails, diplurans, harvestmen, scorpions, ticks, mites, centipedes, millipedes, crayfish, pillbugs, fairy, brine, tadpole, and clam shrimps, water fleas, and malacostracans.

Explore entomology with this hands-on bug guide for kids 8 to 12 From the butterflies in the sky to the beetles underground, there are more than one million species of bugs that live all around us! Discover what makes them so weird and wonderful with this awesome field guide to the bugs you see every day. You'll learn how to find them, identify them, and keep a log of your adventures—just like a scientist. Which bug is this?—Meet 140 bugs native to the U.S. and Canada, and explore step-by-step instructions for how to tell them apart. Amazing facts and photos—See your favorite bugs up close with detailed pictures of every thorax and antenna, plus fun trivia about what bugs eat, how they behave, and more. Your official field notebook—Record all your bug-hunting data with special pages for logging the bugs you encounter. Grab this bug book today, and learn how to spot and understand our insect, arachnid, crustacean, and myriapod friends.

Explore entomology with this hands-on bug guide for kids 8 to 12 From the butterflies in the sky to the beetles underground, there are more than one million species of bugs that live all around us! Discover what makes them so weird and wonderful with this awesome field guide to the bugs you see every day. You'll learn how to find them, identify them, and keep a log of your adventures--just like a scientist. Which bug is this?--Meet 140 bugs native to the U.S. and Canada, and explore step-by-step instructions for how to tell them apart. Amazing facts and photos--See your favorite bugs up close with detailed pictures of every thorax and antenna, plus fun trivia about what bugs eat, how they behave, and more. Your official field notebook--Record all your bug-hunting data with special pages for logging the bugs you encounter. Grab this bug book today, and learn how to spot and understand our insect, arachnid, crustacean, and myriapod friends.

Take a look into the hidden world of your favorite creepy-crawlies with The Ultimate Bug Field Guide—created as if an entomologist painted these illustrations and made these notes while out collecting research. Pick up the journal of a nature explorer and discover the best bugs the world has to offer. Encounter bugs of all shapes and sizes and note observations on each species’ appearance, size, diet, and more. This spectacular visual guide gets you up close and personal with these awesome bugs. This field guide features: - Detailed watercolor illustrations that will captivate young readers - Bugs, beetles, wasps, bees, ants, caterpillars, butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, flies, centipedes, and more - Beautiful leather and foil packaging This informative book will introduce you to the bugs you’ve seen in your backyard and ones you’ve never heard of before. From the peacock spider to the emperor scorpion, explore these incredible critters across every landscape in The Ultimate Bug Field Guide.

Did you know that the mosquito played an important role in the Louisiana Purchase? Or that dung beetles saved the cattle industry in Australia? That honeybees pollinate about one third of the food we eat? Or that the deadliest animal on earth is an insect? There’s an ant colony some 3,700 miles long! Morgan’s sphinx moth has a tongue more than 13 inches long. A locust plague stopped trains as the tracks became slippery with their crushed bodies. There’s a grasshopper in Africa that eats mice. Jim Nelson’s latest book is a treasure house of fascinating facts, stunning photographs and shocking historical events. One moment you might cringe reading about billions of locusts descending on farmland. The next you may laugh out loud at anecdotes and original poetry. Read about the wasp that turns a cockroach into a zombie or the historic 2024 hatch of a trillion cicadas. Trivia buffs will love the “Insect Book of Records” and chefs can add several insect recipes to their repertoire.