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Insect Anatomy

The Curious World Of Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, And Bugs

Julia Rothman
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Pages
208
Year
2025
Language
English

About

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

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