David Attenborough reveals a secret universe it is teeming with life and is all around us, yet we never see it. It is the world of the very small, and it is a world of sex, drugs and violence. Here David shows us not just bugs, beetles and creepy-crawlies, but scorpions and centipedes, mites and mantids, spiders and dragonflies. And not just life in the undergrowth, but the dramatic battles between predator and prey that are happening in the corner of your living room and in your larder. See magnificent spectacles: swarming antler moths; millions of desert locusts; a mountain of locusts. For every pound of humans on Earth, there are 300 pounds of insects.
Have you ever wondered who would win in a fight: a scorpion or a spider, a grasshopper or an ant? Now kids can find out all there is to know about these mean machines and act out battles with their very own plastic bugs, on a pop-up board game.
With incredible statistics and amazing facts about each bug, this is fun non-fiction at its best. Learn all about deadly spiders and what they like to eat and how a praying mantis kills its victim. Find out why wasps are important for pollination and how ants work in a hierarchy.
Also includes Top Stats card integrated into the artwork, which gives statistics that can be used in a simple game, similar to the popular, Top Trumps.
This is an informative and innovative book which will keep kids fascinated for hours on end.