Features descriptions of over three hundred insect families, covering all twenty-nine orders of insect, as well as a selection of spiders and other terrestrial arthopods, and includes a photographic identification key to the main insect groups.

Describes the habits and life cycles of various insects and provides clues for identifying them in their natural habitats.

Learn about venom and the animals that produce it and use it to survive, including spiders, insects, snakes and other reptiles, frogs and toads, fish, and ocean invertebrates.

"Did you know you share your home with monsters?! ... explore the menagerie of tiny and unusual creatures--arthropods (insects, mites, and spiders)--found in our lawns and gardens, our food, our beds, our clothes, and even our eyelashes."--Provided by publisher.