Washoe County Library System

Photographs and text explore the world of insects, including beetles, flies, butterflies, wasps, bees, and ants. "Descubre el concurrido mundo de los insectos: su estructura, historia y fascinante variedad"-- Cover.

Learn about insects, spiders and crustaceans and discover the differences between these three groups of arthropods.

Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, WINGS OF LIFE utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet....

Introduces the metric system by measuring insects found at the pond.