scorpions

Introduces the characteristics and habits of some common spiders and scorpions in the United States.

A comparison of scorpions and tarantulas, their body type, hunting patterns and fighting style, and a decision on which would win if they fought each other.

Simple text and full-color photographs illustrate the lives of scorpions.

Describes the various species of scorpions, where they live and what they eat, and their danger to humans and other animals.

A photographic introduction to scorpions, nocturnal arachnids that search for food at night, discussing what they look like, their stingers and venom, their hunting skills, babies, and other topics.

Provides photographs and information about scorpions, discussing the history of the creatures, their physical characteristics, behaviors, habitats, and reproduction, looking at various scorpion species, and including a real scorpion encased in plastic.

Scorpions abound in photographs that reveal their eating and stinging habits and in diagrams detailing their body parts. The photos are clear enough to see the sensitive hairs on the stingers' bodies that are one of the features discussed in the narrative. Additional facts include the most venomous types of scorpion and how baby scorpions can regrow parts of their legs that they lose to injury.

Describes and illustrates the physical characteristics, life cycles, talents, and defenses of various kinds of spiders and scorpions.

Discusses the order of the animal kingdom known as scorpions and describes the members of fourteen different species that are found in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Israel.

Explores deadly scorpions, explaining what they look like, where they live, how they hunt, how they reproduce, and what they eat.