Describes how various animals, including scorpions, spiders, and snakes, use poison to protect themselves or to acquire food.

Briefly describes how such insects as a praying mantis, silk worm, and bumblebee grow from eggs and larvae to adults.

Explains how animals protect their eggs and why some animals lay their eggs in special places.

Explores how and why some animals of the land and sea are able to grow new body parts.

Explores the world of carnivorous plants, explaining how and why these plants trap insects and other tiny prey. Includes ideas for experiments and iformation on the venus flytrap, pitcher plant, cobra plant, sundew, butterwort, and bladderwort and ideas.

This book, focusing on freshwater fishes, introduces bettas, guppies, zebra danios, platies, tetras, and other aquarium fish and brings the facts to life through hands-on investigation and observation.

This book explains the characteristics, habits, life cycle, and appearance of the many species of beetles.