Dimensions
156 x 160 x 2mm
Kids love insects! This is a topic-specific gardening handbook for kids, all about those fabulous creatures living in micro-habitats in our backyards. Small, kid friendly format with fantastic full colour photographs of all beasties from slugs to stick insects.
This compact handbook for kids reveals many fascinating facts about all the garden critters and creatures that live in an average home garden.
A parallel universe exists, right in your own backyard. Beneath our feet in the soil and grass, hiding under the leaves and bark or even burrowing deep inside the wood of trees, there moves a peculiar and vast collection of tiny creatures. Some are familiar to us, others we rarely see or notice.
Sections include:
- Slippery and slimy things - Incredible worms, snails and slugs
- Hide and seek - Critters that are masters of disguise
- Attention seekers - Show off insects!
- Flies and their eyes - Dragonflies, hoverflies, damselflies, fruit flies and more
- Too many legs! - Spiders perform remarkable feats with their eight legs,
- Queens of darkness - Bees, ants, termites etc live in highly organised social structures
- The suckers - One thing that defines a bug is its sucking mouthparts
- The predators - These are the good guys in the garden
- Do not disturb! - Grubs are a stage in the life cycle of some insects
- Cosy homes and good tucker - Instead of trying to kill insects, we can encourage them to live as a vital part of our gardens.
