Insects

This large encyclopedia will open young readers to the amazing and extraordinarily diverse world of insects — tiny animals that inhabit almost every corner of the globe. Due to their small size and secretive lifestyle, we know little about how they come into being, develop, obtain food, reproduce, and in which places they most often dwell. There are simply an incredible number of insects on our planet — more than three million species! Some of them live close to humans and provide invaluable benefits, such as honey bees or silk moths, while others are notorious pests — who hasn't heard, for example, about the Colorado potato beetle or the brown cockroach? This book talks about fast dragonflies, 'musical' crickets and grasshoppers, ubiquitous cockroaches and voracious locusts, various beetles, beautiful butterflies, and 'striped' bees, bumblebees, and wasps, about hardworking ants and many other representatives of the mysterious micro-world of insects. A huge number of bright and exceptionally captivating illustrations, showcasing these arthropods in all detail, have been created using the most modern color macro photography techniques, as there is simply no other way to penetrate this mysterious land. Educational and useful information will help kids better understand the surrounding world and realize how vast the diversity of life on planet Earth is, as well as reflect on the necessity of preserving living nature, of which insects are numerous representatives. For middle and high school age.