Bug butts
Demonstrates how different insects use their hindquarters in a variety of ways, including breathing, exploding, spinning, and shooting.
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- ISBN: 9780979745508
- ISBN: 0979745500
- Physical Description 48 pages : color illustrations
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher Waynesville, N.C. : Earlylight Books, [2009]
- Copyright ©2009
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 17.95 |
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Summary
Bug Butts
The best of real science and real fun. From blowing bubbles to spraying acid, the world's insects do amazing things with this under-appreciated part of their anatomy. Discover the wild and weird ways insects use their butts to avoid predators. Spittlebugs blow bubbles from their butts and hide under them, while some caterpillars shoot their poop far from their bodies to throw poop-searching wasps off their trail. Ants and beetles spray acid from their butts into the faces of predators, while some caterpillars and larvae build hide-outs with their poop to keep predators away. This book is good for your brain because: anatomy, predator/prey relationship, biology