Insects Play Hide And Seek Too

Have you ever played a game called hide and seek? Believe it or not insects play the same game, but not for fun. The little bugs hide for their lives or hide to catch food. A circle of life and a circle of survival. Look around in your backyard or a city park where the grass is green and there are leaves on the trees and bushes. Within this area are hidden insects not just in front of you but around you. The book is dedicated to Mother Earth, with all her beauty and wonders. So much life, so much worlds within worlds. Nature reflecting the curious mind and the exploring soul to find new gifts from Mother Earth.

New series from DK designed to help kids learn how to read and learn to love reading Bugs Hide and Seek is a 'Starting To Read' reader, perfect for children who are beginning to read for meaning, decoding and recognising words, and enjoying reading. Be surprised! Some bugs have the perfect shape and colour to stay hidden since they look like parts of the plants around them. Can you spot them? Play hide and seek with the bugs and watch out for the bug look-alikes. Bugs Hide and Seek is part of the new DK Reads series, a three-level reading scheme that helps children become confident readers, featuring engaging and illustrated topics. DK Reads is created in consultation with literacy experts and adheres to levelled reading scheme guidelines so the grammar, vocabulary, and content are spot on for each stage.

From the pen of one of Hong Kong's leading writers, Xi Xi (1938 - ), Flying Carpet mirrors the past and present of Fertillia, an island city situated on the south-eastern coast of the huge country of Dragonland. Fertillia is of course Hong Kong, and the novel is part history and part imagination, a rich tapestry of the local material culture and a vivid portrayal of sensitive Chinese minds, a saga of the Fa family who has lived through Fertillia's development from a small village to a cosmopolitan metropolis. On top of the personal drama involving three generations of people, the author casts her narrative net over many walks of life in the city and suggests the uniqueness of Fertillia's existence within a cosmic order of rare elegance and harmony.

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. Designed for the classroom, the book comprises two volumes—Insects and Concepts—that can be used together or independently. Each addresses the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provides new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a world populated by beasts large and small. Volume 1, Insects, examines how insects burrowed into the literal and symbolic economies of the era. The contributors consider diminutive creatures—such as bees and beetles, flies and fleas, silkworms and spiders—and their depictions in plays, poetry, fables, natural histories, and more. In doing so, they illuminate how early modern science and literature worked as intersecting systems of knowledge production about the natural world and show definitively how insect life was, and remains, intimately entangled with human life. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume include Chris Barrett, Roya Biggie, Bruce Boehrer, Gary Bouchard, Dan Brayton, Eric Brown, Mary Baine Campbell, Perry Guevara, Shannon Kelley, Emily King, Karen Raber, Kathryn Vomero Santos, Donovan Sherman, and Steven Swarbrick.

"The Insect Man" by Eleanor Doorly is a story that follows the Yew Tree family as they embark on a journey to France to explore the footsteps of Jean-Henri Fabre, a pioneer in the field of entomology. Drawing inspiration from Fabre's insect tales, Doorly retells his fascinating discoveries in a relatable and engaging manner. Set in the South of France, this book captures the sense of wonder in scientific exploration, travel, and the biography of a self-taught entomologist. It also combines the realms of science, adventure, and biography.

Insects and plants, whether or not they coevolved, have intimate interrelationships. This book concisely yet thoroughly describes these phenomena. In one chapter the salient facts known about carnivorous plants are described. In another, ant and plant relationships are summarized as an introduction to this vast subject. Pollination, of great interest to agriculturists and horticulturists, is briefly explained without the complexities detailed in the massive literature on this topic. Many other subjects are discussed, such as the memory of adult butterflies, which enables them to return to their host plants in the case of the polyphagous species. The book is seeded with such thought-provoking discussions as prostitution among the orchids and botanical indigestion in some plants.