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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Most kids love chocolate, but few of them know that its main ingredient, the cocoa bean, comes from a tree that grows in tropical rain forests. Dual-layer text describes the life cycle of the tree, emphasizing its botanical structures and highlighting the interdependence of the plant and animals such as the pollen-sucking midge, brain-eating coffin fly, and aphid-munching anole lizard. Two wise-cracking bookworms offer meta-textual commentary and...
11) Insect attack
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Introduces various kinds of insects that have wreaked havoc on humanity over the centuries, including locusts, mosquitoes, killer bees, and fruit flies.
12) Killer insects
Author
Pub. Date
1979
Description
Discusses insects that can be called killers, including rat fleas, bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, killer bees, tsetse flies, mosquitoes, army ants, and the kissing bug.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The United Nations supports a compelling solution to world hunger: eat insects! Explore the vast world of unexpected foods that may help solve the global hunger crisis. Weeds, wild plants, invasive and feral species, and bugs are all food for thought. Learn about the nutritional value of various plant and animal species; visit a cricket farm; try a recipe for dandelion pancakes, kudzu salsa, or pickled purslane; and discover more about climate change,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Wicked Bugs: The Meanest, Deadliest, Grossest Bugs on Earth is a middle-grade adaptation of Amy Stewart's Wicked Bugs that features profiles of the world's scariest, deadliest, and grossest bugs, from the most painful hornet to flies that transmit deadly diseases to millipedes that stop traffic, to "bookworms" that devour libraries. With its featured bugs organized by categories that match the upper elementary science curriculum, this humorous, fascinating,...
15) What bit me?
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and habits of various biting and stinging insects.
17) Beastly bugs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explains just how dangerous the insect world can be, includes photographs, ferocious facts and thrilling real-life stories.
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