Creepy, crawly and ever present, bugs scare and fascinate people of all ages. This book magnifies the amazing habits and bizarre physical features of insects and other small creatures to brilliant proportions. Their habits and habitats; their social lives, sex lives and life cycles; their sense, food, behavior; their enemies and allies are all covered. Full-color spreads offer a macroscopic view of insects' tiny world and take readers into their survival-of-the-fittest environment. From the common ant to rare wood spiders, praying mantis' and monster dragon flies, the bugs are pictured in their natural habitats, hunting, courting and burrowing. Lavishly illustrated with dazzling action shots, Bugs goes way beyond standard zoo photography in this huge 13 1/2"x13 1/2" format book - the same as Heavy Equipment and Pickup Trucks. The text describes every detail - from mating habits and homes/hiding places to defense mechanisms - highlighting the most fascinating trait of each critter. A special box in each section gives significant scientific statistics: life span, time of the year that you might see them, size, species, genus and various other distinguishing characteristics.