Author: Robert Young
Publisher: Milestone
ISBN: 9780866531757
Category : Middle schools
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Swatting Flies
Author: Robert Young
Publisher: Milestone
ISBN: 9780866531757
Category : Middle schools
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: Milestone
ISBN: 9780866531757
Category : Middle schools
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
SWAT!
Author: Mike Barfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908241184
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
In 'SWAT ' just-hatched housefly Buzzter gets instructions from Professor Halfbottle on how to survive the dangers in life, like being eaten by various animals and plants or killed by humans.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908241184
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
In 'SWAT ' just-hatched housefly Buzzter gets instructions from Professor Halfbottle on how to survive the dangers in life, like being eaten by various animals and plants or killed by humans.
"Swat the Fly!"
Author: Eleanor Gates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flies as carriers of disease
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flies as carriers of disease
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Swatting Flies
Author: Brian Iiyama
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480082595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Deputy Tom Grant is a good old boy on a quest to find the identity of a dead girl found mauled just outside of town. He will meet man and monster alike as he uncovers the horrible truth behind her death. Hate will make him one or the other.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480082595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Deputy Tom Grant is a good old boy on a quest to find the identity of a dead girl found mauled just outside of town. He will meet man and monster alike as he uncovers the horrible truth behind her death. Hate will make him one or the other.
Swatting the Spanish Flies
Author: Margarita Ventenilla Hamada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Milliner's Hat Mystery
Author: Basil Thomson
Publisher: Dean Street Press
ISBN: 1911095803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"What are you looking for, sir?" he said. "Bloodstains." Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him. The trail leads to France, where we discover why a French milliner chose to ride in a laundry basket, why the two American men are so interested in their wives' hat trimmings, and why it is so difficult for the French police to touch a criminal with high political connections. But Richardson discovers that the murder of Bernard Pitt was only an incident in the diabolical plot linking a network of criminals on both sides of the Channel. The Milliner's Hat Mystery, a novel which inspired Ian Fleming, was first published in 1937. This new edition, the first for many decades, includes an introduction by crime novelist Martin Edwards, author of acclaimed genre history The Golden Age of Murder. "Sir Basil Thomson is a past-master in the mysteries of Scotland Yard." Times Literary Supplement
Publisher: Dean Street Press
ISBN: 1911095803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"What are you looking for, sir?" he said. "Bloodstains." Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him. The trail leads to France, where we discover why a French milliner chose to ride in a laundry basket, why the two American men are so interested in their wives' hat trimmings, and why it is so difficult for the French police to touch a criminal with high political connections. But Richardson discovers that the murder of Bernard Pitt was only an incident in the diabolical plot linking a network of criminals on both sides of the Channel. The Milliner's Hat Mystery, a novel which inspired Ian Fleming, was first published in 1937. This new edition, the first for many decades, includes an introduction by crime novelist Martin Edwards, author of acclaimed genre history The Golden Age of Murder. "Sir Basil Thomson is a past-master in the mysteries of Scotland Yard." Times Literary Supplement
The Secret Life of Flies
Author: Erica McAlister
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780565094751
Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780565094751
Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
What's Bugging You?
Author: Arthur V. Evans
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926988
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
We are told from the time we are children that insects and spiders are pests, when the truth is that most have little or no effect on us--although the few that do are often essential to our existence. Arthur Evans suggests we take a closer look at our slapped-at, stepped-on, and otherwise ignored cohabitants, who vastly outnumber us and whose worlds often occupy spaces that we didn't even know existed. What's Bugging You? brings together fifty unforgettable stories from the celebrated nature writer and entomologist's popular Richmond Times-Dispatch column. Evans has scoured Virginia's wild places and returned with wondrous stories about the seventeen-year sleep of the periodical cicadas, moths that evade hungry bats by sensing echolocation signals, and the luminous language of light employed by fireflies. He also visits some not-so-wild places: the little mounds of upturned soil scattered along the margins of soccer fields are the dung beetle's calling card. What does the world look like to a bug? Evans explores insect vision, which is both better, and worse, than that of humans (they are capable of detecting ultraviolet light, but many cannot see the color red), pausing to observe that it is its wide-set forward-looking eyes that imbue the praying mantis with "personality." He is willing to defend such oft-maligned creatures as the earwig, the tent caterpillar, and the cockroach--revealed here as a valuable scavenger, food source for other animals, and even a pollinator, that spends more time grooming itself than it does invading human space. Evans's search for multilegged life takes him to an enchanting assortment of locations, ranging from gleaming sandy beaches preferred by a threatened tiger beetle to the shady, leaf-strewn forest floors where a centipede digs its brood chamber--to a busy country road where Evans must dodge constant foot and vehicular traffic to photograph a spider wasp as its claims its paralyzed prey. His forays also provide the reader with a unique window on the cycles of nature. What Evans refers to as the FBI--fungus, bacteria, insects--are the chief agents in decomposition and a vital part of regeneration. Evans also takes on many issues concerning humans' almost always destructive interaction with insect life, such as excessive mowing and clearing of wood that robs wildlife of its food and habitat, as well as harmful bug zappers that kill everything but mosquitoes. The reader emerges from this book realizing that even seemingly mundane forms of insect and spider life present us with unexpected beauty and fascinating lifestyles.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926988
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
We are told from the time we are children that insects and spiders are pests, when the truth is that most have little or no effect on us--although the few that do are often essential to our existence. Arthur Evans suggests we take a closer look at our slapped-at, stepped-on, and otherwise ignored cohabitants, who vastly outnumber us and whose worlds often occupy spaces that we didn't even know existed. What's Bugging You? brings together fifty unforgettable stories from the celebrated nature writer and entomologist's popular Richmond Times-Dispatch column. Evans has scoured Virginia's wild places and returned with wondrous stories about the seventeen-year sleep of the periodical cicadas, moths that evade hungry bats by sensing echolocation signals, and the luminous language of light employed by fireflies. He also visits some not-so-wild places: the little mounds of upturned soil scattered along the margins of soccer fields are the dung beetle's calling card. What does the world look like to a bug? Evans explores insect vision, which is both better, and worse, than that of humans (they are capable of detecting ultraviolet light, but many cannot see the color red), pausing to observe that it is its wide-set forward-looking eyes that imbue the praying mantis with "personality." He is willing to defend such oft-maligned creatures as the earwig, the tent caterpillar, and the cockroach--revealed here as a valuable scavenger, food source for other animals, and even a pollinator, that spends more time grooming itself than it does invading human space. Evans's search for multilegged life takes him to an enchanting assortment of locations, ranging from gleaming sandy beaches preferred by a threatened tiger beetle to the shady, leaf-strewn forest floors where a centipede digs its brood chamber--to a busy country road where Evans must dodge constant foot and vehicular traffic to photograph a spider wasp as its claims its paralyzed prey. His forays also provide the reader with a unique window on the cycles of nature. What Evans refers to as the FBI--fungus, bacteria, insects--are the chief agents in decomposition and a vital part of regeneration. Evans also takes on many issues concerning humans' almost always destructive interaction with insect life, such as excessive mowing and clearing of wood that robs wildlife of its food and habitat, as well as harmful bug zappers that kill everything but mosquitoes. The reader emerges from this book realizing that even seemingly mundane forms of insect and spider life present us with unexpected beauty and fascinating lifestyles.
The Texanist
Author: David Courtney
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477312978
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477312978
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Old Black Fly
Author: Jim Aylesworth
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805039244
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An oral reading and signing of the book "Old Black Fly" by staff of the McKinley Elementary School and Reddick Library.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805039244
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An oral reading and signing of the book "Old Black Fly" by staff of the McKinley Elementary School and Reddick Library.