Title:
Wicked bugs : the meanest, deadliest, grossest bugs on earth
Author:
Stewart, Amy, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, [2017].
©2017
Physical Description:
xi, 177 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary:
"Wicked Bugs: The Meanest, Deadliest, Grossest Bugs on Earth is a middle-grade adaptation of Amy Stewart's Wicked Bugs that features profiles of the world's scariest, deadliest, and grossest bugs, from the most painful hornet to flies that transmit deadly diseases to millipedes that stop traffic, to "bookworms" that devour libraries. With its featured bugs organized by categories that match the upper elementary science curriculum, this humorous, fascinating, and seriously icky book will has color illustrations throughout"--
Language:
English
Contents:
Brazilian wandering spider -- Tsetse fly -- Assassin bug -- Mosquito -- Oriental rat flea -- Curse of the scorpion -- Cockroach -- Deer tick -- Bed bug -- Body lice -- Head lice -- The enemy within -- Nightcrawler -- Brown marmorated stink bug -- African bat bug -- Millipede -- Zombies -- Death-watch beetle -- Rocky mountain locust -- Mountain pine beetle -- Formosan subterranean termite -- Corpse eaters -- Asian giant hornet -- Paederus beetle -- Brown recluse -- Giant centipede -- Scabies mite -- Bombardier beetle -- Tarantula -- Stinging caterpillars -- The ants go marching -- Black widow -- Chigoe flea -- Chigger mite -- Sand fly -- Black fly -- Filth fly -- I've got you under my skin -- Fear of bugs.
Reading Level:
Ages 8 to 12.
Grades 4 to 6.
ISBN:
9781616207557
Format :
Book
