Insects
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Butterflies & Moths
Butterflies & Moths: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar North American Species
This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and includes information on their life cycle and features illustrations of common caterpillars and pupae.
A Field Guide to Butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
by Diane Debinski
Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, while mostly noted for grizzly bears, elk, moose, and other large mammals, also host a high species diversity of butterflies, owing to the ecosystem's vast area of pristine habitat. Many of the nearly 120 butterflies described can also be found elsewhere in the Northern Rockies, making the book useful beyond the artificial borders of the public lands.
Bees & Other Pollinators
The Honey Files: A Bees Life
Grade 4-6
A fantastic educator's guide for teaching all about honey bees. Includes lesson plans, printables,
and vocabulary guides.
From Flower to Honey
by Robin Nelson
Grade K-2
Managing Alternative Pollinators:
A Handbook for Beekeepers, Growers, and Conservationists
Bugs
Insects
by Clarence Cottam
A handy guide to the most common and showy North American insects. Includes color illustrations, a key, mature and immature forms, habits and more.
Amazing Bugs
38 Snap on Stingers, Wings, & Things
Grade k-4
Each page has clues that help the young entomologist discover the correct organs and limbs to make the bugs battle ready. In the tray are stingers, pincers, jaws, claws, wings and things to transform helpless bodies into amazing bugs equipped to survive. Swap pieces to make your own mutant monsters!
Starting with Nature Bug Book
by Pamela Hickman
Grade 1-5
A Dragon in the Sky: The Story of a Green Darner Dragonfly
By Laurence Pringle
Grade 3-5
Are You a Dragonfly?
By Judy Allen
Grade K-3
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Insect Specimen Collection Common insects, tastefully displayed to allow students to make observations, explore, and examine anatomy. |