Bugs: Insects, Spiders, Centipedes, Millipedes, and Other Closely Related Arthropods

Creepy, crawly and ever present, bugs scare and fascinate people of all ages. This book magnifies the amazing habits and bizarre physical features of insects and other small creatures to brilliant proportions.

Their habits and habitats; their social lives, sex lives and life cycles; their sense, food, behavior; their enemies and allies are all covered.

Full-color spreads offer a macroscopic view of insects' tiny world and take readers into their survival-of-the-fittest environment. From the common ant to rare wood spiders, praying mantis' and monster dragon flies, the bugs are pictured in their natural habitats, hunting, courting and burrowing.

Lavishly illustrated with dazzling action shots, Bugs goes way beyond standard zoo photography in this huge 13 1/2"x13 1/2" format book - the same as Heavy Equipment and Pickup Trucks.

The text describes every detail - from mating habits and homes/hiding places to defense mechanisms - highlighting the most fascinating trait of each critter. A special box in each section gives significant scientific statistics: life span, time of the year that you might see them, size, species, genus and various other distinguishing characteristics.

Sheryl Lechner has been a freelance writer and editor since the 1980s. Her profiles and feature articles deal with topics such as women's rights, film, health, and the environment and have appeared in such publications, as Sierra, Audubon, Reform Judaism, the Boston Globe and Berkshire Living. She has worked as a reporter at three newspapers and served as a political and press staffer for city council members and a governor. Her original screenplay The Lobster Trap deals with issues of integrity and entrapment in the world of politics.

Frank Lowenstein's first published writing was a review of activist singer U. Utah Philips’s 1982 concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has since published dozens of articles on environmental, economic, and scientific issues. He serves as Director of Forest Health Programs for The Nature Conservancy’s Global Forest Partnership. He shares a home in western Massachusetts with co-editor Sheryl Lechner and their three sons.