Get a close-up look at the world of insects with the fifth book in Julia Rothman's Anatomy series: a delightfully illustrated guide to the fascinating insects, bugs, arachnids, and other creatures that populate our planet by the billions.
Millions of species of insects fly, crawl, dig, swarm, and eat on every continent. Our very existence depends on them; without pollinators, we would have no food, and without decomposers, the world would be covered in decaying plant and animal material. With her signature style, Julia Rothman delves into this incredible world, uncovering amazing facts about bees, beetles, butterflies, and so much more.
Julia Rothman is a highly acclaimed contemporary illustrator and author of many best-selling books, including Nature Anatomy, Farm Anatomy, Ocean Anatomy, Food Anatomy, Nature Anatomy Notebook, and Wildlife Anatomy. Her illustrated column, Scratch, ran for five years in the Sunday New York Times. Clients for her illustrations and pattern designs include Target, the Washington Post, MTA Arts & Design, and more. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Outline for Insect Anatomy
Chapter 1: Bugging Out
What is an arthropod? / Page of statistics (include difference between insect/bug/others)
Arthropod family tree / classification
Timeline of Bugs / Escaping Extinction
Parts of an Insect / Interior anatomy
Kinds of Wings / flight patterns
Kinds of eyes
How bugs hear
Ways of eating (2 spreads)
What bugs eat / eating toxins
Legs and walking
Sense of touch / antennae
Actual sizes
Where bugs live
One acacia tree
Colors
About beetles
Importance of bugs to ecosystem
Sample ecosystem disrupted
Climate change
Chapter 2: Way of Life
Simple growth / incomplete metamorphosis
Bug eggs / shedding bugs
Larvae vs adult
Butterflies (3 spreads)
Monarchs' journey
Moth vs butterfly
Moths (2 spreads)
Silkworm
Chapter 3: Community Building
Anatomy of an ant / ant jobs
Ant species / facts
Leaf cutter ants
Anatomy of a bee / kinds of bees
Bee facts
How a hive works
Wasps
Wasp nests
Termites / termite mounds
Decomposers
Chapter 4: Buzzworthy Features
Camouflage (2 spreads)
Bugs with faces/eyespots
Mimicking / playing dead
Stingers
Venom
Armor
Anatomy of a grasshopper / big jumpers
Walking on water / extreme temperature adaptations
Smells
Chapter 5: Social Butterflies (communication)
Body language and poses
Noisy bugs
Pheromones
Fireflies
Courtship dances / gift giving
Mating
Chapter 6: Superlatives
Weirdest (2 spreads)
Most colorful (2 spreads)
Largest (2 spreads)
Smallest / fastest
Longest lived / cicadas
Shortest lived
Strongest / loudest
Longest migration
Chapter 7: Not Bugs Insects but Close
Intro / parts of a spider
Spider facts
Spider webs
Centipede and millepede
Worms
Slugs / snails
Chapter 8: Humans and Bugs
People Eat Bugs
Indoor insect pests around the world
Outdoor insect pests / garden beneficials (2 spreads)
Making dye / candy coating
Fruit fly research / maggots for wound healing
Silkworm to your shirt
Bugs that Bite People
Critically endangered
Insect fossils
Scientists studying bugs (2 spreads)
Ways to attract butterflies
Go on a bug hunt
9 things you can do to help insects
SAMPLE TEXT
An insect has three body parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), six legs, and typically wings.
Spiders have just two body parts, plus fangs, as well as spinnerets for spinning threads for webs and cocoons. Also, they have 8 legs.
A "true bug" is a small insect that has sucking mouthparts and forewings and undergoes incomplete metamorphosis.
People Eating Bugs
It's been estimated that people ingest nearly two pounds of bugs every year without knowing it. On th
