Pascoe, Elaine

Explains how and why pitcher plants, sundews, and other carnivorous plants trap insects for food.

Briefly describes how such insects as a praying mantis, silkworm, and bumblebee grow from eggs and larvae to adults.

Explains how animals protect their eggs and why some animals lay their eggs in special places.

Investigates the physical characteristics, reproductive processes, habitats, and metamorphoses of butterflies and moths through hands-on projects.

Describes the interdependence of some of the plants and animals that can be found in a milkweed patch.

Explores the physical characteristics, reproduction, habitat, and metamorphosis of tadpoles. Includes hands-on activities.

Describes how seeds are formed, how they grow, what they look like, how they reproduce, and how they make food and provides instructions for related hands-on science projects.