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Author Young, Karen Romano.

Title Bug science : 20 projects and experiments about arthropods: insects, arachnids, algae, worms, and other small creatures / by Karen Romano Young ; illustrations by David Goldin.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2009]
©2009
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1414163~S1
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 95th Street Juvenile Nonfiction  J 595.707 YOU    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Juvenile Nonfiction  J 595.707 YOU    AVAILABLE
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Description 80 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Science fair winners.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Workshop #1: Raise your own. . . raise flies! -- Workshop #2 : Swimming in it . . . observe microscopic bugs -- Workshop #3 : ants come marching. . . try to make an ant get lost -- Workshop #4 : Honey, help me with this hayfever! . . . try to reduce hayfever by eating local honey -- Workshop #5 : Watching spiders. . . observe a spider in captivity -- Workshop #6 : The eye of the butterfly. . . figure out what color a butterfly favors -- Workshop #7 : X-ray vision . . . photograph the insides of an insect's head -- Workshop #8 : Catapult legs . . . demonstrate the properties of a flea's legs -- Workshop #9 : Arachnophobia! . . . design a questionnaire to study spider phobia -- Workshop #10: Roly-poly maze . . . teach pillbugs by using their instinct to stay out of the light -- Workshop #11: Composting: beyond worms! . . . get inside a compost heap -- Workshop #12: I've got worms . . . find the reproduction rate of compost worms -- Workshop #13: Food factory . . . learn about the business of raising insects for insect-eating reptiles -- Workshop #14: Eating up the road . . . investigate ant tunnels -- Workshop #15 : Cricket- and moth-eaten socks . . . compare bug eating habits -- Workshop #16: Striding on water . . . analyze how water striders stay afloat -- Workshop #17: Sounds buggy . . . evaluate insect calls -- Workshop #18: Strong as silk . . . test the strength of fibers -- Workshop #19: How to fly . . . build an insect-size airplane -- Workshop #20: A cricket's sense of smell . . . train an insect to recognize smells.
Audience 980L Lexile
Note 980L Lexile
Subject Arthropoda -- Juvenile literature.
Science projects -- Juvenile literature.
Arthropoda.
Science projects.
Local Subject YOUNG ADULT COLLECTION
ISBN 9781426305191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1426305192 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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