What's Buggin' You Now?: Bee's Knees, Bug Lites and Beetles by Turpin, Tom

What's Buggin' You Now?: Bee's Knees, Bug Lites and Beetles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557535092)

Vendor: Tom Turpin
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Format: Paperback
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What's Buggin' You Now?: Bee's Knees, Bug Lites and Beetles by Turpin, Tom

What's Buggin' You Now?: Bee's Knees, Bug Lites and Beetles

$12.95
What's Buggin' You Now?: Bee's Knees, Bug Lites and Beetles by Turpin, Tom

What's Buggin' You Now?: Bee's Knees, Bug Lites and Beetles

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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The author of Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales is back with more ditties on the insect kingdom. Find out about Aesop's insects, Edgar Allan Poe's Gold Bug, and Ogden Nash's creepy crawlies. Dig up some facts on the Colorado and Japanese beetles, and cash in on the million dollar beetle. Head for cover, the Bombardier beetles are coming If you're in the dark, hook up with a firefly. Bugs have been around longer than your great-great-grandma--400 million years before to be somewhat exact. Insects strolled around with dinosaurs and kept on going even when the behemoths disappeared. What's Buggin You Now? let's you catch the bug without the jar

Author: Tom Turpin
ISBN-10: 1557535094
ISBN-13: 9781557535092
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 199
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2009 pg. 63
By Tom Turpin
By Tom Turpin
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Dr. Tom Turpin is the creator of Purdue University's "Bug Bowl," a celebration of insect antics, annually drawing over 12,000 visitors, who come to munch on bug stir-fry, to take part in cricket-spitting contests, and to cheer on tractor-pulling creepy crawlers at Roach Hill Downs. Turpin has been featured in Time and People magazines and has appeared on Good Morning America, the Guinness World Record Show and the Prairie Home Companion. He is a professor of entomology in Purdue's college of agriculture.

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