Take a Walk with Butterflies and Dragonflies

Take A Walk With Butterflies And Dragonflies

Take A Walk With Butterflies and Dragonflies will teach you how to find and identify the butterflies and dragonflies in your backyard, schoolyard, and local park. Learn how to observe these insects safely, what makes them unique and how and when they migrate. Take this book with you outdoors so you can take field notes in the Field Notes pages, make lists of the butterflies and dragonflies you see and learn how to read field marks. Packed with beautiful photos, illustrations, incredible facts and stories by other kids. Take A Walk With Butterflies And Dragonflies is recommended by the National Science Teachers Association, Jeff Corwin, Wildlife biologist and Emmy winning Executive Producer and host of Animal Planet's popular TV series, "The Jeff Corwin Experience," and holds the National Gardening Association's Seal of Approval. Take A Walk With Butterflies and Dragonflies is a great gift for kids, families, and people who like to learn about insects and the environment or who just want to have some fun in the outdoors! Purchase your signed copy today.

ISBN 978-0-9709754-22
By Jane Kirkland

Price	$9.95 U.S.
Trim size:	8 ½ X 11
Page count:	32
Interior:	4 color
Photographs:	100+
Illustrations:	5
User Level:	Ages 8 and up
Category:	Juvenile nonfiction
Pub date:	July 2004
Imprint:	Take a Walk® Books
Publisher:	Stillwater Publishing

Here are just a few of the exciting things you'll learn in Take A Walk With Butterflies And Dragonflies:
Butterfly or moth?	Dragonfly or damselfly?	Life cycle of a butterfly	Life cycle of a dragonfly	Where to look
Learn how to tell the difference between a butterfly and a moth by observing behavior, body, antennae, and color. Learn how these insects are related and the differences between cocoons and chrysalises. Discover which butterflies are state insects.	Learn the differences between dragonflies and damselflies and how they are related. Learn how to tell whether an insect is a dragonfly or damselfly by observing the position of the wings, the size, the shape of the wings and the eyes.	Follow the life cycle of a butterfly from egg to caterpillar to pupa to adult. See photos of many of the most common butterfly caterpillars and how butterflies use cryptic coloration as a defense. Learn more about our most famous migrating butterfly—the monarch.	Follow the life cycle of a dragonfly from egg to larva to adult. Discover how long a nymph remains a nymph, where it lives, and what it eats. Learn what eats dragonflies and what dragonflies eat.	Discover the best places and times of year (and the time of day) to find butterflies and dragonflies. Learn where to find butterfly eggs and caterpillars, exo-skeletons of nymphs, and adult butterflies and dragonflies.