You don't need to live on a farm to raise happy, healthy honeybees. All it takes is a small backyard and the guidance of Rob and Chelsea McFarland, founders of HoneyLove - a Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to protecting honeybees and educating a new generation of urban, suburban and rural beekeepers. Beekeeping is a relaxing and intriguing hobby that requires little time. It yields fresh, local honey beekeepers can keep or share, and bees...

Profiles real-life cases that have been solved through forensic entomological evidence; and explores the career of a forensic entomologist.

Inside this book, meet 12 insects whose life cycles take weird to a whole new level. From wasps that turn spiders into zombies to help them take care of their larvae to bot flies that start life by burrowing into a horse's tongue, every page is packed with truly unbelievable facts. Perfect for reluctant readers, these books deliver life sciences in the creepiest, yuckiest way possible!

In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioural ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance. Wasps get a bad rap, but there may no other earthly creature guarding so many undiscovered...

Includes activities, puzzles, and crafts to aid the study of insects. For elementary to junior high levels.

Explores the world of insects from tiny bugs to battling beetles, finding out how antennae work, what an ant's house is like, and why dragonflies can fly backward.

This book focuses on Ant-Man and the animal that informed his character, the ant! It breaks down the origin of Ant-Man and explores the abilities and strengths that the animal and superhero share. Colorful photographs, simple text, a glossary, and an index are also included.