Encyclopedia of Insects

Very nice comprehensive and detailed educational resource. The sections are broken down by species and each species includes the scientific latin name and a fun fact. The illustrations are realistic and not cartoon-ish which I love.

A well laid out book about insects of all kinds. The illustrations are eye-catching and I think any child would enjoy reading this book especially once they become interested in bugs.

This is a very comprehensive book about insects.
If you are interested in them, or want to know about them, this is a great book for you.
There are beautiful illustrations for each insect presented, and a short summary through which you can get to know them.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. I love how this book is set up and provides really great information about insects. The illustrations are fun and kids will really enjoy this while learning as well.

I received a free digital copy through NetGalley. This is a detailed field guide with stunning illustrations.

This is a well illustrated book packed with information about insects, broken down into a few species for all different kinds. The paintings of the insects are lovely (and occasionally not all, which is to be expected with some of the subject matter) and I love the emphasis on treating insects as fascinating species to get to know and protect rather than just "bugs" to eliminate. That said, I was frustrated by the lack of insects from North America. So few of them will be insects that children here will be able to search for or ID. I was also frustrated by the lack of so many insects. Obviously this is a subject that has far too many species to offer a complete encyclopedia in any way. That said, most of the insects my own kids encounter are missing from this book, which makes it more of a fact book and less of an encyclopedia to me. It's still a great resource, but I debated whether to give it 3 or 4 stars because of those two factors. The interesting info and level of detail for the insects along with the illustrations pulled it up to 4 stars for me.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

Beautifully illustrated reference book for children featuring information on hundreds of insects. I wish there was more information regarding where to specifically find each insect. This book reminded me of Gerald Durrell's reference, 'The Amateur Naturalist,' which I absolutely adored as a kid. I would recommend this book for children 6-7 and up, especially ones who love bugs! 

Thank you NetGalley and Wide Eyed Editions for providing this ARC.

I LOVE learning, so seeing this encyclopedia perked me right up! Sure, insects can be creepy and crawly, but I was down for learning some new stuff about everyone's "favourite" creatures! And I wasn't disappointed!

Do keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive collection of bugs, but it is an excellent start for eager minds!!

The pictures in this book are absolute awesome! I really enjoyed the damselfly picture that stared into my soul (hoenstly, it was creepy to stare at my but the art is AMAZE-BALLS). 

Here are select things I learned:
1. There's complete and incomplete metamorphosis? Wait... what? Why did my biology classes skip that information? THAT IS SO COOL.

2. Dragonflies are actually predators, and Damselflies are a thing. Who knew? 

3. The Walking Flower Mantis looks super cool and pretty. I even googled them because I didn't believe they were actually pink. They are gorgeous!! They look like flowers! 

4. Toe Biters, Hummingbird Hawkmoth & Slave-Making Ants. That is all.

Things I would like to avoid:
1. Swams of locusts. Kthanxbai.

2. EARWIGS HAVE WINGS. REPEAT: EARWIGS HAVE WINGS. They are way grosser now. Yuck. They can chase me when I run away!

Overall, this book is totally, super amazing! I would absolutely recommend this to young and old readers alike! You'll learn a whole bunch. I could totally see this book being used for school projects or for nerdy little kids like me (back in the day, of course) who just wanted to soak up knowledge like a sponge. I will definitely be using some of these facts for my useless trivia I spout out at people on a regular basis.

Five out of five stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing for giving me an opportunity to read this book!

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Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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The encyclopedia of insects is a 160 page book FILLED with facts and illustrations. Beetles, butterflies, wasps, bees, ants & more!

My 5 year old LOVED this book and we will use it as a tool for homeschooling.

A really successful book, that does just what it wants to do.  Normally I call a book out for just sticking to the superlative this – the strongest that, the most vicious other – and forgetting the rest.  But when there are a gazillion species of insects to get through and only two per page manage to fit your design brief, then you do go for the most remarkable.  I liked the way this book briefly and succinctly told us why insects are so interesting and yet so endangered before we got to the actual encyclopedia part, which took us through the life cycle then dumped us with gloriously illustrated pages, generally only one spread per insect type, and told us about them.  We get their Latin name, their wingspan or length, distribution and diet, and a nice paragraph to show their notable features.  The monkey grasshopper has no ear drums.  The oak bush cricket in Europe plays the drums to attract mates.  The Chinese mantis can catch and eat hummingbirds.  One insect makes a trophy-styled body armour out of the ants it eats, another stacks its own sloughed-off heads on top of the one it's currently using.

But this isn't solely about such trivia – this is a wonderful addition to school libraries everywhere.  Here is a stick insect as long as the adult arm, and a louse that shoots silk out its mouth as opposed to the other end, but here also is a great way to learn – in my day they had stick insects of a smaller kind in jam jars, now they have books like this.  One quibble is that they could have included metric measurements as well as the imperial – even I find it hard to work out what 0.04 of an inch looks like without google telling me it's a millimetre.  That aside, this could be called essential.

I loved this! I don't like insects much but this book made me realize I should appreciate them more. The facts included were so interesting, some blew my mind. I loved how the book was split up in different kind of insect species. The illustrations were amazing. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who just wants to learn more about insects and their importance.

This is an encyclopaedia of insects.
It contains all prominent species of insects around us.
First of all I would appreciate very high quality illustrations of the insects.
Then there is very interesting knowledge about particular insects.
As we endanger multiple species by our over utilisation of resources, insects are also facing decline in population.
So many wonderful and weired insects are described.
I liked mantis, spiders, beetle, bumblebee and paroah ants.
It was fascinating to learn about insect which becomes a parasite on cockroaches.
It is a wonderful book to learn a bit about insects who live in close proximity.
Thanks netgalley and Quarto publishers for review copy.

A fascinating book. I have a house in rural Spain and there are many different and interesting insects there, now I should be able to give them all a name thanks to this book.