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  • Silkworms

    Sylvia A. Johnson, Isao Kishida

    Paperback (First Avenue Editions TM, Aug. 1, 1982)
    Silkworms are not actually worms at all. They are the caterpillars of a large white moth. Many moth caterpillars produce silk thread inside their bodies, but the thread of the silkworm is so fine and strong that human beings use it to make a beautiful fabric. In countries like Japan, people raise millions of silkworms on farms and take their thread to be processed into silk cloth. Readers of this book will find out how silk farmers process silk and what role this amazing thread plays in the life cycle of the silkworm moth.
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  • Silkworms

    Sylvia A. Johnson, Isao Kishida

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Aug. 1, 1982)
    An introduction to the domesticated silkworm moth, raised on farms in Japan and elsewhere for the sake of the silk thread out of which its cocoons are constructed.
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  • Beetles

    Sylvia A. Johnson, Isao Kishida

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, June 1, 1982)
    Constituting one-third of the one million kinds of insects in the world, the beetle family includes a picturesque diversity of members, who are introduced in this handsomely photographed book
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  • Crabs

    Sylvia A. Johnson, Yasuyuki Koike, Atsushi Sakurai

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Oct. 1, 1982)
    Describes the lives, habits, and body structure of crabs, with full-color close-up photographs that show crabs in their natural environment
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  • Ladybugs

    Sylvia A. Johnson, Yuko Sato

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Jan. 1, 1984)
    Describes the life cycle of ladybugs, from egg through larva and pupa to adult, and explains how ladybugs aid humans by feeding on insect pests.
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  • Water Insects

    Sylvia A. Johnson, Modoki Masuda

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Feb. 1, 1990)
    Examines the life cycles, behavior, characteristics, and habitats of several species of insects that spend nearly all their lives in and around water--including the whirligig beetle and water strider
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  • Dragonflies

    Cynthia Overbeck

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Oct. 1, 1982)
    Introduces dragonflies and damselflies, closely related winged insects which undergo a three-stage process of development called incomplete metamorphosis.
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  • Chirping Insects

    Sylvia A. Johnson

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Dec. 1, 1986)
    Describes how chirping insects such as crickets, katydids, and grasshoppers produce their songs and use them to send messages to other members of their species.
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  • Grasshoppers

    Jane Dallinger, Yuko Sato, Hidetomo Oda

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, June 1, 1981)
    A detailed, illustrated study of the life cycles of grasshoppers--insects notorious for their amazing appetites--explains why some grasshoppers cause so much damage to crops
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  • Inside an Egg

    Sylvia A. Johnson, Kiyoshi Shimizu

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Sept. 1, 1982)
    Full-color photographs trace the development of a chicken embryo as the backbone, nervous system, eyes, and feathers form
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  • Coral Reefs

    Sylvia A. Johnson, Shohei Shirai

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, May 1, 1984)
    Describes the life cycles of the coral polyps, examines the creation of reefs and illustrates the fish, mollusks, crustraceans, and other inhabitants of the reef environment
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  • Snails

    Sylvia A. Johnson

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Oct. 1, 1982)
    An introduction to the structure and ways of life of some of the 40,000 kinds of snails, with an emphasis on land snails.