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snakes move snake tracks how snakes breed snake eggs how 

 snakes kill how poison fangs work hearty eaters the ways of a 

 rattler the rattle rings what the rattle is for kinds of rattle- 

 snakesthe good-natured boa pythons: the largest snakes the 

 cobra's double personality the garter snake hognose snakes: 

 ham actors the maligned milk snake king snakes: harmless and 

 dangerous kinds how to recognize a poisonous snake when you 

 encounter a snake snakes as pets proper diet for a pet snake- 

 turtles armor plate for defense how to take care of turtle pets 

 turtle ailments and remedies chameleons and other lizards 

 the secret of the chameleon's color changes how to keep a 

 chameleon pet lizards of the Southwest alligators and crocodiles 

 how alligators and crocodiles differ frogs the hobby of collect- 

 ing frogs' eggs how a tadpole grows biggest and smallest frogs- 

 toads basis for the "wart" myth how toads drink and breathe- 

 how toads defend themselves where to find toads salamanders 

 the red eft the care of amphibians how to catch a frog how 

 to feed an amphibian pet. 



9. THE WONDERFUL WAYS OF INSECTS AND SPIDERS z ^ 



What is an insect? how insects are able to move the lowly bug 

 millions of kinds of insects the magic of metamorphosis eyes 

 with thousands of facets the insect's detecting equipment how 

 insects eat and breathe the delicate structure of legs and wings 

 butterflies: insects with glamour the beautiful black swallowtail 

 the migrating monarch butterfly the hibernating mourning 

 cloak moths: how they differ from butterflies silk manufacturers 

 the woolly bear caterpillar: weather prophet caterpillars as a 

 hobby the pleasures of cocoon collecting how to collect butter- 

 flies and moths how to handle the butterfly net the best hunting 

 grounds how to mount butterflies and moths beetles: 23,000 

 species in North America the firefly the ladybug: pest exter- 

 minatorthe ground beetle: nighttime hunter beetles with gas 

 bombs beetles near water how to collect beetles ants inside 

 the ant colony savage ant warriors grasshoppers and their music 

 katydids: fiddlers, not singers crickets as weather forecasters- 

 cricket on the hearth how to keep cricket pets bees the bee's 

 sting very few kinds of bees store honey the underground 

 bumblebee playing bee detective what goes on in a beehive- 

 wasps: clever papermakers the wood-eating termites flies blood- 

 thirsty mosquitoes crane flies the dragonfly beautiful, and use- 

 ful too the damsel fly insects that live in the water the 

 whirligig: "lucky bug" the speedy water strider the upside-down 



