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• Creepy Crawlies are Cool: Booklist for Kids

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  This is a booklist of children's titles. Small but mighty, unusual and beautiful. We love bugs! Dive into the world of garden creatures with this booklist.

• Empire of Ants

  the Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

  Foitzik, Susanne,

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  Ants number in the ten quadrillions, and they have been here since the Jurassic era. Inside an anthill, you'll find high drama worthy of a royal court; and between colonies, high-stakes geopolitical intrigue is afoot. Just like us, ants grow crops,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Milk Without Honey

  Harms, Hanna,

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  This powerful English-language debut traces the ecosystems that pollinators inhabit-and exposes the dangers that threaten their existence. . . . The solution, according to Harms, is no less than ‘a new world’ where humans collectively respect and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

  Bailey, Elisabeth Tova

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  In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail.

• Silent Earth

  Averting the Insect Apocalypse

  Goulson, Dave,

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  Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly grind to a halt; we simply cannot function without them. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research and a lifetime's study, Dave Goulson reveals the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scientist

  E.O. Wilson : a Life in Nature

  Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

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  A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time. Fascinated from an early age by the natural world in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bees

  An Up-close Look at Pollinators Around the World

  Droege, Sam,

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  While we eat, work, and sleep, bees are busy around the world. More than 20,000 species are in constant motion! They pollinate plants of all types and keep our natural world intact. In Bees , you'll find a new way to appreciate these tiny wonders.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Language of Butterflies

  How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect

  Williams, Wendy, 1950-

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  Butterflies are one of the world’s most beloved insects. From butterfly gardens to zoo exhibitions, they are one of the few insects we’ve encouraged to infiltrate our lives. Yet, what has drawn us to these creatures in the first place? And what are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Endless Forms

  the Secret World of Wasps

  Sumner, Seirian,

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  Everyone worries about the collapse of bee populations. But what about wasps? In this eye-opening and entertaining work, a leading behavioural ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects’ secret world,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sounds of Life

  How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

  Bakker, Karen J.,

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  Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead? The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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  As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cry of the Wild

  Life Through the Eyes of Eight Animals

  Foster, Charles, 1962-

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  We have long since isolated ourselves from our fellow animals, banishing them into exile and dominating the land they once roamed. At once exhilarating and deeply moving, Cry of the Wild reconnects us with our animal side and brings us face to face,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bicycling With Butterflies

  My 10,201-mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

  Dykman, Sara, 1985-

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  Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• North Woods

  a Novel

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe),

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  “Shivers of lust passed through his elytra as he found her scent grow stronger,” and there we are, in the head of an Elm Bark beetle, one of many POVs in the thoroughly enchanting novel North Woods by Daniel Mason