Insects. The Amazing Little World

Insects and spiders have inhabited the planet Earth for many thousands of years. They are champions of camouflage and skilled architects. They can crawl, fly, dig, sting, and produce venom. Their life cycle is filled with incredible metamorphoses, and their communities exhibit complex social organization. Dragonflies and ants, spiders and beetles - this book is full of legends, curious stories, traditions, and unusual facts about the amazing, still unexplored world of insects. You will learn that crickets, for example, can serve as thermometers, that African people consider the praying mantis to be a deity that bestowed fire upon mankind, and that no one can surpass termites in constructing enormous impressive nests.