41-3095

On a Backyard Safari - With Our Father of Details

  • Hard cover
  • 205 pages
  • 1.96 lbs

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Featuring eye-popping macro-photography and captivating stories, this beautiful volume is a cross between an encyclopedia and an adventure tale.

A fly with no mouth, a hydraulic-powered spider, a freeze-proof caterpillar, and a deadly message coded in light pulses—are such things found only in exotic places like Africa or the Amazon basin? Follow the author and his family as they discover these wonders and many more in a single two-acre Ohio backyard. And don't be surprised if this book puts you in the mood to strike out on a backyard safari of your own.

  • The Journey
  • Our Two Acres
  • Not Enough Books
  • In·sect: Having Sections

Species

  • #1: Carolina grasshopper
  • #2: monarch butterfly
  • #3: tiger swallowtail
  • #4: dog flea
  • #5: scissor grinder locust
  • #6: geometer moths
  • #7: zebra jumping spider
  • #8: bold jumping spider
  • #9: [unidentified spider]
  • #10: corn earworm
  • #11: differential grasshopper
  • #12: clouded sulphur butterfly
  • #13: cabbage white butterflies
  • #14: Isabella tiger moth
  • #15: Virginia tiger moth
  • #16: fly agaric mushroom
  • #17: red admiral butterfly
  • #18: spiny-bellied orb weaver
  • #19: fall field cricket
  • #20: Virginia creeper sphinx moth
  • #21: wolf spiders
  • #22: harvestmen
  • #23: nitrous bonnet
  • #24: ladybird beetle
  • #25-31: crane flies
  • #32: large yellow underwing
  • #33: brown rove beetle
  • #34-40: micromoths
  • #41: Chinese mantis
  • #42: praying mantis
  • #43: mayfly
  • #44: harnessed tiger moth
  • #45: Corn smut
  • #46: net-wing beetle
  • #47: southern scurfy Quaker moth
  • #48: common fruit fly
  • #49: June bug
  • #50: long-jawed orb weaver
  • #51: sweet potato weevil
  • #52: banded garden spider
  • #53: orange marbled orb weaver
  • #54: large maple spanwood moth
  • #55: Colorado potato beetle
  • #56: orchard spider
  • #57: poison ivy leaf gall mite
  • #58: Davis's tree cricket
  • #59: fishing spider
  • #60: [unidentified katydid]
  • #61: eastern comma butterfly
  • #62: grass spider
  • #63: phantom crane fly
  • #64: giant leopard moth
  • #65: [unidentified slug]
  • #66: furrow orb weavers
  • #67: soldier fly
  • #68: cedar beetle
  • #69: two-spotted tree cricket
  • #70: [unidentified mosquito]
  • #71: thin-legged wolf spider
  • #72: big dipper firefly
  • #73: click beetle
  • #74: big-headed ground beetle
  • #75: striped cucumber beetle
  • #76: barn funnel weaver
  • #77: Japanese beetle
  • #78: housefly
  • #79: human
  • Appendix A: A Real Insect Collection
  • Appendix B: Science versus Religion?
  • Photo credits
  • About Our Photos
  • Glossary
  • Index of Species
    • Weight
      1.96 lbs
    • SKU
      41-3095
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