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In the air, on the ground, and in the water, incredible tiny creatures are all around us! They may be small, but they live remarkable lives. The Book of Tiny Creatures introduces young learners to spiders, butterflies, worms, snails, and even the world's heaviest insect, the Little Barrier Island giant weta. This fun-filled book teaches children fascinating facts through interactive quizzes, detailed seek-and-find scenes, and hands-on activities, like how to make a snail terrarium. A great first STEM read, The Book of Tiny Creatures reveals the wonder of how these creatures grow, reproduce, form communities, and more.
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Nathalie Tordjman
Nathalie Tordjman is a Paris-based journalist specializing in nature and the environment. She is the author of more than forty books and writes for numerous publications.
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The Book of Tiny Creatures - Nathalie Tordjman
WHO ARE THE TINY CREATURES?
SUCH DIVERSITY!
The bodies of tiny creatures are set up in many different ways.
Three big groups
Mollusks, such as snails, have soft, always-moist bodies, which may be protected by a shell. Most of them only have one foot.
Annelids, or worms, have a soft body, formed out of a series of rings, and no feet.
Arthropods have bodies protected by a hardened layer, called a cuticle, and articulated feet. They include insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans.
Arthropods: The most numerous group
REPRODUCTION
There are so many tiny creatures because they have such an astounding ability to reproduce.
Male-female couples
Most arthropods pair up as a male and a female. Then the couple separates, and the female lays eggs.
The male spider—in this case, a wasp spider—is often smaller than the female . . . who mustn’t mistake him for prey!
Many possibilities for mating
Snails, slugs, worms, and some crustaceans are hermaphrodites (both male and female). After mating, each lays its own eggs. Some mollusks, such as flat oysters, change sex during their lives. Female aphids, for their part, give birth to their offspring without mating with a male. This is called parthenogenesis.
Operation reproduction!
To meet up, the male and female send each other messages. A female butterfly attracts a male by sending a fragrant message.
The male field cricket attracts the female by chirring, or stridulating, outside his burrow.
Where to lay eggs?
The female praying mantis lays 200 to 300 eggs in air-hardening foam in egg cases called oothecae.
The female garden tiger moth lays 200 to 400 eggs under the leaves of a plant.
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