"No one likes to see flies investigating their picnic and so they are often shooed away. But how do flies find food? And do they really eat picnic leavings and other trash? Time to call in the bug explorers! In this book, readers begin their explorer training by finding out about flies' body features, where they're found, what they eat, and what their life cycle is like. Up-close photographs showcase features unable to be seen by the naked eye"--Provided...

Flies get no respect. People shoo them. They swat them. They use bug spray to kill them. But the next time you see a fly, think twice before you strike. Flies can be annoying but helpful too. They are pollinators. Pollinators help plants produce the fruits and vegetables we love to eat. Flies pollinate pears, strawberries, and even cacao, the nut used to make chocolate. Flies work hard for us and they do it for free! Native Pollinators: Flies is a...

[The author] travels from the drawers of wonder at the Natural History Museum, London to the mountains of Peru, via underground caves, smelly latrines, and the English country garden. She discovers flies without wings, eyes on stalks, rotating genitalia and the terrible hairy fly, while pausing along the way to consider today's key issues of conservation, taxonomy, forensic entomology and climate change." -- Jacket.

Winner of the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet, Flies presents an uncompromising vision of joy and devastating loss through a strict economy of language and an exuberant surrealism. Michael Dickman's poems bring us back to the wonder and violence of childhood, and the desire to connect with a power greater than ourselves. What you want to remember of the earth and what you end up remembering are often two different...

This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a fly's body parts and behaviors.

Red may not know who her true family is, but she is determined to find out where she truly belongs.

In Ellicott's captivating second mystery set in post-WWI England (after 2017's Murder in an English Village), adventure-seeking American Beryl Helliwell and her old English school chum, Edwina Davenport, who share a household in the hamlet of Walmsley Parva, set up their own informal private investigation business. Their first client, Vicar Wilfred Lowethorpe, calls on them for help in a matter that requires sensitivity and discretion. One of the...

A recently separated woman faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school reunion.

Flies may be some of the most pesky or disgusting insects you can think of, but they may also me some of the most important. Some fly species rid us of other insect pests. Other flies are just plain pests themselves. Learn more about these friend-and-foe bugs in this intriguing book. The World of Insects series reveals the intriguing physical characteristics and behavior of some of our best-known insects. Each volume provides details about these creatures'...