A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Insects
'This book has found a special place in my heart. It's as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it' HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK'Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings ... Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and ...Show more
Dragonflies & Damselflies: A Natural History by Dennis Paulson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Insects
Dragonflies are often called birdwatchers' insects. They are large, brightly colored, active in the daytime, and with complex and interesting behavior. Like butterflies, they appeal even to people who don't think highly of insects in general. They have been with us since the dinosaurs lived, and they co ...Show more
Spiderwebs by Nancy Furstinger
$14.99 AUD
Category: Insects | Series: Animal Engineers (Paperback Set Of 8) Ser.
Explains the process and materials that spiders use to build webs. This book's colorful photos, clear text, and "A Closer Look" feature highlight the engineering that makes this structure such a marvel and helps spiders survive in the wild.
Fireflies, Honey, and Silk by Gilbert Waldbauer
$49.95 AUD
Category: Insects
The beauty of butterflies, the cheerful chirp of crickets, the ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear. This enchanting book is a highly entertaining exploration of the myriad ways insects have enriched our lives - culturally, economically, an ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Insects
''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK''Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more than ...Show more
Bee Friendly Garden by Doug Purdie
$39.99 AUD
Category: Insects
Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over. They love to live in urban environments, where it's a short flight path from one plant to the next. But conventional gardens that favour lawns and pesticides over flowers and edible plants are scaring the good bugs away. The ...Show more
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. the Ones Who Run Our World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Insects
A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. Out of sight, underfoot, unseen beyond fleeting scuttles or darting flights, insects occupy a hidden world, yet are essential to sustaining life on earth. Insects influence our ...Show more
The Benevolent Bee by Stephanie Bruneau
$29.99 AUD
Category: Insects
Get the buzz on bees, honey, hive behavior, and all the things you can make with bee products in The Benevolent Bee. A honeybee hive produces much more than honey; it also produces pollen, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom. And humans have found uses for all these products. The Benevolent Be ...Show more
A Guide to the Beetles of Australia by George Hangay
$44.95 AUD
Category: Insects
Winner of the 2010 Whitley Medal A Guide to the Beetles of Australia provides a comprehensive introduction to the Coleoptera - a huge and diverse group of insects. Beetles make up 40 per cent of all insects known to science. The number of described beetle species in the world - around 350 000 - is more ...Show more
The Book of Caterpillars: A life - size guide to 600 species from around the world by David G. James
$59.99 AUD
Category: Insects
Butterflies and moths are among the most beautiful and most-studied creatures in nature. Caterpillars, the juvenile stage, are just as diverse, alluring, and fascinating - and deserve to be admired and observed just as closely. Now, with The Book of Caterpillars, they can be. This taxonomic survey profi ...Show more
Wasp by Ri'Chard Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Insects | Series: Animal Ser.
Our fear and fascination with wasps set them apart from other insects. Despite their iconic form and distinctive colors, they are surrounded by myth and misunderstanding. Often portrayed in cartoon-like stereotypes bordering on sad parody, wasps have an unwelcome and undeserved reputation for aggressive ...Show more