One Million Insects

Isabel Thomas (Author) Isabel Thomas studied Human Sciences at the University of Oxford. She is a science writer and children's author who has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the ASE Science Book of the Year, and the Blue Peter Book Awards. Isabel also writes for children's science magazines Whizz Pop Bang and The Week Junior Science + Nature, and for science outreach projects. She is a primary school governor and parent of three young sons. Lou Baker Smith (Illustrator) Lou Baker Smith is a freelance illustrator and designer, working in book publishing and packaging design. Her work is diverse in subject matter and technique, the common thread that runs through it is a love of colour, textures and layers.

Welcome to Planet Insect • Is it an insect? • Dazzling diversity • True bugs • Lice and thrips • Earwigs, webspinners and angel insects • Stoneflies, rockcrawlers and heelwalkers • Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets and katydids • Cockroaches, termites and mantids • Stick insects and leaf insects • Beetles • Flies • Fleas, stylops and scorpionflies • Butterflies and moths • Caddisflies, alderflies, lacewings and snakeflies • Wasps, bees and ants • Bristletails and silverfish • Mayflies, dragonflies and damselflies • Millions more