In the format of other popular Awesome series, the Awesome Bugs series offers an introduction to the world's creepiest crawlies. Beetles and Bugs. Learn all about beetles, bugs and pests. Including detailed information on true bugs, beetles, mating and courtship, eggs and babies, attack and defence, camouflage, crop pests, biting insects, cockroaches, recyclers and helpful insects. Spiders and Scorpions has chapters on courtship and breeding, eggs and young, the incredible varieties of webs, attack, defence, cunning and camouflage, tarantulas, scorpions, ticks, mites, harvestmen and horseshoe crabs.

Author Biography

Anna Claybourne has been writing children's non-fiction books for 9 years, covering topics from modern art to science and nature. She won the 1997 TES Senior Information Book award for The World of Shakespeare and currently lives and works in Edinburgh.