Download or read book Small Wonders An Insect s Perspective written by Sage Sterling and published by Quiddity. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the hidden world teeming beneath your feet! In Small Wonders: An Insect's Perspective, everyday creatures become extraordinary heroes. This unique collection of prose invites you to experience the world through the eyes of an ant, a butterfly, a honey bee, and more. Journey with these tiny creatures as they navigate a realm of giants, facing daily struggles and celebrating unexpected triumphs. Feel the thrill of the hunt from a spider's silken web, the triumph of flight with a dragonfly, and the quiet determination of a caterpillar waiting to transform. These intimate and surprising tales will forever change how you see the smallest wonders of the natural world. Featuring the voices of: Ant, Butterfly, Honey Bee, Centipede, Spider, Tarantula, Fly, Moth, Lady Bug, Cockroach, Grasshopper, Dragonfly, Cricket, Caterpillar, June Bug, Stick Bug, Water Strider.
Download or read book Small Wonders written by Matthew Clark Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meet Jean-Henri Fabre, one of the most important naturalists of all time, whose own life was as unusual as the lives of the creatures he studied"--Front jacket flap.
Download or read book Pollinators Predators Parasites written by Clarke Scholtz and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 1271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pollinators, parasites, purifiers, predators, decomposers – insects arguably play the most important roles in the functioning of the Earth’s ecosystems. This lavishly illustrated and highly authoritative book is structured around southern Africa’s 13 distinct biomes; it reflects the essential role insects play in most ecological processes such as pollination, predation, parasitism, soil modification and nutrient recycling; details how they serve as food for multitudes of other organisms, including bacteria and fungi, as well as specially adapted plants, insect-feeding arthropods, reptiles, birds and mammals; depicts the insects and phenomena described in some 2,000 photographs that accompany the accessible text; highlights the crucial role insects play as ecosystem service providers, giving intimate insight into the beauty and importance of insects in the natural world. Includes a guide to each of the 25 insect orders found in southern Africa, with images showing their diagnostic characters. This key publication detailing the latest research in the field of entomology will appeal to academics and nature enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book Small Wonders written by Peggy Perdue and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty easy experiments draw on children's natural curiosity while introducing them to the basics of the scientific approach. The activities use everyday, readily available items such as popcorn, toys, and paints. Each lab contains detailed instructions, including a list of materials, what to do to prepare, a focusing activity, the lab procedure, and evaluation and extension activities. Reproducible lab sheets for recording data are provided. Grades K-1. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 66 pages.
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A World of Little Wonders Or Insects at Home written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society written by Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 20- include Proceedings of the North Carolina academy of science, 1902-
Download or read book An Insect View of Its Plain written by Rosemary Scanlon McTier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, insects became a very fashionable subject of study, and the writing of the day reflected this popularity. However, despite an increased contemporary interest in ecocriticism and cultural entomology, scholars have largely ignored the presence of insects in nineteenth-century literature. This volume addresses that critical gap by exploring the cultural and literary position of insects in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir. It examines the beliefs these authors share about the nature of our connection to insects and what insects have to teach about creation and our place in it. An important contribution to both ecocriticism and literary entomology, this work contributes much to the understanding of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir as nature writers, natural scientists, entomologists, and botanists, and their intimate and highly spiritual relationships with nature.
Download or read book The Eat a Bug Cookbook Revised written by David George Gordon and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure. For many Americans, eating a lowly insect is something you’d only do on a dare. But with naturalist and noted bug chef David George Gordon, bug-eating is fun, exciting, and downright delicious! Now you can impress, enlighten, and entertain your family and friends with Gordon’s one-of-a-kind recipes. Spice things up at the next neighborhood potluck with a big bowl of Orthopteran Orzo—pasta salad with a cricket-y twist. Conquer your fear of spiders with a Deep-Fried Tarantula. And for dessert, why not try a White Chocolate and Wax Worm Cookie? (They’re so tasty, the kids will be begging for seconds!) Today, there are more reasons than ever before to explore entomophagy (that’s bug-eating, by the way). It’s an environmentally-friendly source of protein: Research shows that bug farming reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is exponentially more water-efficient than farming for beef, chicken, or pigs. Mail-order bugs are readily available online—but if you’re more of a DIY-type, The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook includes plenty of tips for sustainably harvesting or raising your own. Filled with anecdotes, insights, and practical how-tos, The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook is a perfect primer for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World written by Laura White and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though popular opinion would have us see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There as whimsical, nonsensical, and thoroughly enjoyable stories told mostly for children; contemporary research has shown us there is a vastly greater depth to the stories than would been seen at first glance. Building on the now popular idea amongst Alice enthusiasts, that the Alice books - at heart - were intended for adults as well as children, Laura White takes current research in a new, fascinating direction. During the Victorian era of the book’s original publication, ideas about nature and our relation to nature were changing drastically. The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World argues that Lewis Carroll used the book’s charm, wit, and often puzzling conclusions to counter the emerging tendencies of the time which favored Darwinism and theories of evolution and challenged the then-conventional thinking of the relationship between mankind and nature. Though a scientist and ardent student of nature himself, Carroll used his famously playful language, fantastic worlds and brilliant, often impossible characters to support more the traditional, Christian ideology of the time in which mankind holds absolute sovereignty over animals and nature.
Download or read book Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society for the Year written by Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plants and Insects written by Andrew L. Byers and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innumerable Insects written by Michael S. Engel and published by Sterling. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the world's most numerous inhabitants, illustrated with stunning images from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. It is estimated that there are around five million insect species on Earth, and this magnificent volume tells their incredible story. It covers everything from insect evolution, metamorphosis, and camouflage to society, language, and pollination--plus tales of discovery by intrepid entomologists. More than 180 illustrations describe these fascinating animals down to their tiniest details, from butterflies' iridescent wings to beetles' vibrant colors.
Download or read book Bugs Bugs Bugs written by Bob Barner and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretty ladybugs, fluttering butterflies, creepy daddy longlegs, and roly-poly bugs are some of the familiar creatures featured in this whimsically illustrated insect album. Complete with an "actual size" chart and bug-o-meter listing fun facts about each bug, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! will inform and entertain curious little bug lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Contact Zones written by Elizabeth S. Leet and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It offers strategies for writing the companions of our humanity. Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines, we each envision contact zones between materials, bodies, and identities as multidirectional agentic exchanges that define and enact material-semiotic entanglements. Together, the chapters offer disanthropocentric readings of materiality that center the more-than-human agencies that impact human identities and embodiments across the medieval world. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 1, March 2020.
Download or read book Step Gently Out written by Helen Frost and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dazzlingly poetic photo album of the insect world for tots on up.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) What would happen if you walked very, very quietly and looked carefully at the natural world outside? You might see a cricket leap, a moth spread her wings, or a spider step across a silken web. In simple, evocative language, Helen Frost hints at the many tiny creatures around us, while in stunning close-up photographs, Rick Lieder captures a katydid's eye, a firefly, and many more living wonders awaiting discovery. Back matter amplifies the descriptions of the insects and spiders in the book.
