The Nature Kid's Guide to Hornets and Wasps: A Level 2 Reader for Curious Young Kids Who Love Wasps! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798898182519)

Buzz! A small insect hovers outside your picnic cup, eyeing your soda. It's a yellow jacket, and somewhere nearby its nest holds 5,000 more just like it.

If your child thinks wasps and hornets are just pests to run from, this book is about to change everything. A group of just 30 Asian giant hornets can wipe out an entire bee colony in hours. Velvet ants look fluffy and cute but pack a sting so painful people call them cow killers. Paper wasps can recognize the faces of other wasps in their group, the same way kids recognize their friends at school. A cuckoo wasp caught sneaking into another wasp's nest curls into an armored ball so tight that no predator can pry it open. Wasps save farmers billions of dollars every year by eating crop pests. Every page delivers something your child will want to run and share.

"The Nature Kid's Guide to Hornets and Wasps" is written for curious kids ages 7-12 who want to know the real story behind one of nature's most misunderstood insects. How does a tarantula hawk take down a spider 10 times its own size? What makes a wasp nest strong enough to hold thousands of workers even though it is built from nothing but chewed wood and spit? Why do over 100 different insects pretend to be wasps even though they cannot sting at all? Your child will find out, and they will never swat at a wasp the same way again.

Short sentences and surprising facts build reading confidence while keeping even older kids hooked from first page to last. Chapters cover more than a dozen species from yellow jackets and bald-faced hornets to jewel-colored cuckoo wasps, mud daubers, and the giant hornets of Asia.

A book for every kid who has spent their whole life running from wasps and is about to find out just how cool they actually are.

There are more than 30,000 species of wasps on Earth, and most of them will never sting a single person. There is almost certainly one building something extraordinary near your home right now. That is the kind of wonder that sticks.

Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child is next!