Animal Architects - How Insects Build Their Amazing Homes - Hardcover

W. Wright Robinson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567113753 ISBN 13: 9781567113754

Publisher: Blackbirch Press, 1999

Synopsis

Insects are found all over the world and are the most numerous animals on Earth. Some homes are simple, such as a tunnel chewed out of wood by a carpenter bee. Other homes, however, can be incredibly complex. The mud and dirt mounds made by certain ants and termites, for example, are intricate cities that have their own breeding areas, nurseries, food-growing sections -- even their own air-conditioning systems!

About this title

From School Library Journal

Gr 5-8-Robinson shows how various animals live and what can be learned from studying their dwellings. Both titles abound in interesting detail and have good-quality, full-color photographs or well-captioned diagrams on almost every page. Insects begins with a clear definition of what an insect is and then goes on to describe the ways termites, wasps, ants, and bees construct their houses and nests. Field wasps are credited for the human inspiration to make paper and potter wasps are credited for jugs. Mammals covers beavers, chimpanzees, squirrels, prairie dogs, moles, and badgers, among others. Though the titles have similar formats, chapters are devoted to the types of structures that mammals build (homes aboveground, belowground, and in and around water) rather than to the individual species as in the first book. Worthwhile additions to zoology collections.-Randi Hacker, Montgomery Elementary School, VT

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Review

"Photographs and illustrations enhance the precise text descriptions, and highlighted sections give examples of unusual or interesting insect behaviors."
-- Infotech (February 2002) (Infotech 20011001)

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackbirch Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1567113753
• ISBN 13: 9781567113754
• Binding: Board book
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64