Sylvia A Johnson

Follows a beekeeper through the four seasons, showing how bees and humans work together to make honey.

Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of crabs.

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the hermit crab.

Discusses how mushrooms and other fungi get their food, grow, and produce more of their own kind.

Describes the varied characteristics and habits of bats and the importance of their roles as pollinators and seed dispersers.

Examines the physical characteristics of snakes and the way in which they live.

Describes the habits and life cycle of mantises, including the hatching of eggs, development of young, and final molt that produces adult insects.

Describes the life cycle of ladybugs, from egg through larva and pupa to adult, and explains how ladybugs aid humans by feeding on insect pests.

Follows the battle to reconcile scientific fact with religious faith with regard to Darwin's theory of evolution, from the supporting theories of fellow scientists, to the opposing voices of clergymen, to twenty-first-century supporters of Intelligent Design. Through quotations from letters and other contemporary sources, readers will meet the personalities and ideas involved in the debate. They will also examine some of the legal cases that brought...

An introduction to the domesticated silkworm moth, raised on farms in Japan and elsewhere for the sake of the silk thread out of which its cocoons are constructed.