Discovering Insects: Ants, Flies, Crickets…

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

Ever wonder how to sort out the female fruit flies from the males? Can
you give the proper Latin name for an ant? Would you like to be able to
tell your room temperature using only a stop watch and a happy field
cricket? If so, the answers to these questions and much other intriguing
information are available to you in this second volume of the Young
Naturalist series.

Gilles Brillon has produced a very readable text, which is nicely
translated by Christina Richards and expertly illustrated by Doris
Barrette. The subjects of this volume include many common but
hard-to-study insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, ants, aphids, and
fruit flies. The experiments Brillon suggests are interesting and easy
to perform; they demand only materials already found in the average
home.

If the young naturalist in your home completes even half of the
activities suggested in this volume, you will likely have filled in an
entire summer vacation. Highly recommended.