Beasties in my backyard
By: Camilla de le Bédoyère
Edition: First Scholastic edition.
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780545917490
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Insects; Juvenile literature
Description: 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.--