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An earwig has a Captain Hook appearance, with ÒpincersÓ attached to its back end. But honestly, the insect looks scarier than it is. Early learners will want to poke around this book to explore how earwigs look and behave. They are sure to get hooked on reading!
Contrary to their name's suggestion, earwigs do not crawl into people's ears. Earwigs have pinchers on their bodies that they use to fight other earwigs or pick up food. Find out about the other parts of an earwig's body, what earwigs eat, and how earwigs take care of their young.
All sorts of creatures appear in books - rabbits, dogs, mice, and even ladybirds - but there are no earwigs! Ernest decides to put this right, with surprising and hilarious results . . .
An introduction to earwigs, including what they look like, how they are born, what they eat, how they grow, and where they live.
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Provides information about earwigs, explaining what they are and what they look like, and discussing how they are born, how they grow, their behaviors, eating habits, and enemies.
Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books—at the time, the existence of a rhinoceros was as credible as a unicorn or dragon. Although audiences now scoff at the impossibility of mythological beasts, there remains an extraordinary willingness to suspend skepticism and believe wild stories about nature, particularly about insects and their relatives in the Phylum Arthropoda. In The Earwig’s Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these antiq...
This title is part of a series that is designed to support children's investigations into life processes in the local environment. The series focuses on familiar minibeasts so that children are able to go into a garden or school grounds and research the bugs themselves, so reinforcing learning. The aim of the series is to demonstrate that: animals move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce; that living things can be grouped according to observable similarities and differences and that there are different kinds of animals in the local environment.