The Waterbug Book

The Waterbug Book PDF Author: John Gooderham
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780643066687
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Book Description
Freshwater invertebrates identification guide for both professionals and non-professionals. Contains a key to all the macroinvertebrate groups and photographs of live specimens.

The Waterbug Book

The Waterbug Book PDF Author: John Gooderham
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780643066687
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Book Description
Freshwater invertebrates identification guide for both professionals and non-professionals. Contains a key to all the macroinvertebrate groups and photographs of live specimens.

The Waterbug Book

The Waterbug Book PDF Author: John Gooderham
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099719
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
Freshwater macroinvertebrates provide a useful and reliable indicator of the health of our rivers, streams, ponds and wetlands. As environmental awareness within the community increases, there is an increasing interest in the need to assess the health of our local waterways and school curriculums are changing to reflect this important ecological trend. The Waterbug Book provides a comprehensive and accurate identification guide for both professionals and non-professionals. It contains an easy-to-use key to all the macroinvertebrate groups and, for the first time, high quality colour photographs of live specimens. It provides a wealth of basic information on the biology of macroinvertebrates, and describes the SIGNAL method for assessing river health. The Waterbug Book is full of practical tips about where to find various animals, and what their presence can tell about their environment. Winner of the 2003 Eureka Science Book Prize and the 2003 Whitley Medal.

The Adventures of Willy the Baby Water Bug

The Adventures of Willy the Baby Water Bug PDF Author: Kelly Crawford
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 154625529X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Book Description
Willy the Baby Water Bug goes on an adventure, only to find out that he should have listened to his parents.

Monster Bugs

Monster Bugs PDF Author: Lucille Recht Penner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553512552
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Book Description
Best-selling simplifier of science Lucille Recht Penner unearths the truth about the water bug which sucks its victims' blood like a vampire, the assassin bug which turns its prey to mush with a special poison, and other barbaric bugs. This vividly illustrated collection of sensational but true bug facts is sure to set young readers' skin crawling!

A Walk around the Pond

A Walk around the Pond PDF Author: Gilbert Waldbauer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022119
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Book Description
A water strider darts across a pond, its feet dimpling the surface tension; a giant water bug dives below, carrying his mate’s eggs on his back; hidden among plant roots on the silty bottom, a dragonfly larva stalks unwary minnows. Barely skimming the surface, in the air above the pond, swarm mayflies with diaphanous wings. Take this walk around the pond with Gilbert Waldbauer and discover the most amazingly diverse inhabitants of the freshwater world. In his hallmark companionable style, Waldbauer introduces us to the aquatic insects that have colonized ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers, especially those in North America. Along the way we learn about the diverse forms these arthropods take, as well as their remarkable modes of life—how they have radiated into every imaginable niche in the water environment, and how they cope with the challenges such an environment poses to respiration, vision, thermoregulation, and reproduction. We encounter the caddis fly larva building its protective case and camouflaging it with stream detritus; green darner dragonflies mating midair in an acrobatic wheel formation; ants that have adapted to the tiny water environment within a pitcher plant; and insects whose adaptations to the aquatic lifestyle are furnishing biomaterials engineers with ideas for future applications in industry and consumer goods. While learning about the evolution, natural history, and ecology of these insects, readers also discover more than a little about the scientists who study them.

Wailana the Waterbug

Wailana the Waterbug PDF Author: Lisa Matsumoto
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566473019
Category : Dragonflies
Languages : en
Pages :

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Book Description
Wailana, the waterbug, wakes up everyday to play with her friends and soon feels the joy of turning into a dragonfly.

Water Bugs and Dragonflies

Water Bugs and Dragonflies PDF Author: Doris Stickney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780829818581
Category : Children and death
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Originally published: Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1997.

Insectlopedia

Insectlopedia PDF Author: Douglas Florian
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152163358
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
Florian's elegant poems and watercolor collages are a treat -- Los Angeles Times.

Doug the Waterbug's First Christmas

Doug the Waterbug's First Christmas PDF Author: Mark Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781695881471
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Book Description
It's Doug the Waterbug's first Christmas. Doug discovers that Christmas is about more than just gifts. Joy comes from spending time with family and friends.Picture book ages: 5-9

A World of Insects

A World of Insects PDF Author: Ring T. Cardé
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674046196
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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Book Description
As we follow the path of a giant water bug or peer over the wing of a gypsy moth, we glimpse our world anew, at once shrunk and magnified. Owing to their size alone, insects’ experience of the world is radically different from ours. Air to them is as viscous as water to us. The predicament of size, along with the dizzying diversity of insects and their status as arguably the most successful organisms on earth, have inspired passion and eloquence in some of the world’s most innovative scientists. A World of Insects showcases classic works on insect behavior, physiology, and ecology published over half a century by Harvard University Press. James Costa, Vincent Dethier, Thomas Eisner, Lee Goff, Bernd Heinrich, Bert Hölldobler, Kenneth Roeder, Andrew Ross, Thomas Seeley, Karl von Frisch, Gilbert Waldbauer, E. O. Wilson, and Mark Winston—each writer, in his unique voice, paints a close-up portrait of the ways insects explore their environment, outmaneuver their enemies, mate, and care for kin. Selected by two world-class entomologists, these essays offer compelling descriptions of insect cooperation and warfare, the search for ancient insect DNA in amber, and the energy economics of hot-blooded insects. They also discuss the impact—for good and ill—of insects on our food supply, their role in crime scene investigation, and the popular fascination with pheromones, killer bees, and fire ants. Each entry begins with commentary on the authors, their topics, and the latest research in the field.