Author: Molly Aloian
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778723400
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A brief introduction to the anatomy of insects.
Bug Body Parts
Author: Steffi Cavell-Clarke
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1534520635
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Young readers get an exciting, up-close look at bug bodies as they learn essential beginner biology topics in a fun and fresh way. They discover the many ways a bug’s body parts work together through the use of age-appropriate text and simple diagrams designed with early learners in mind. Vivid photographs show the body parts of the world’s coolest and creepiest bugs in amazing detail. This creative approach to a common part of science curricula is sure to keep young readers engaged as they learn big things about some of the world’s tiniest creatures.
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1534520635
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Young readers get an exciting, up-close look at bug bodies as they learn essential beginner biology topics in a fun and fresh way. They discover the many ways a bug’s body parts work together through the use of age-appropriate text and simple diagrams designed with early learners in mind. Vivid photographs show the body parts of the world’s coolest and creepiest bugs in amazing detail. This creative approach to a common part of science curricula is sure to keep young readers engaged as they learn big things about some of the world’s tiniest creatures.
A Fly for the Prosecution
Author: M. Lee Goff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674037687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on scenes from which most people would recoil--human corpses in various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met a premature end through accident or mayhem. To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic entomologists, each body recovered at a crime scene is an ecosystem, a unique microenvironment colonized in succession by a diverse array of flies, beetles, mites, spiders, and other arthropods: some using the body to provision their young, some feeding directly on the tissues and by-products of decay, and still others preying on the scavengers. Using actual cases on which he has consulted, Goff shows how knowledge of these insects and their habits allows forensic entomologists to furnish investigators with crucial evidence about crimes. Even when a body has been reduced to a skeleton, insect evidence can often provide the only available estimate of the postmortem interval, or time elapsed since death, as well as clues to whether the body has been moved from the original crime scene, and whether drugs have contributed to the death. An experienced forensic investigator who regularly advises law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad, Goff is uniquely qualified to tell the fascinating if unsettling story of the development and practice of forensic entomology.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674037687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on scenes from which most people would recoil--human corpses in various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met a premature end through accident or mayhem. To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic entomologists, each body recovered at a crime scene is an ecosystem, a unique microenvironment colonized in succession by a diverse array of flies, beetles, mites, spiders, and other arthropods: some using the body to provision their young, some feeding directly on the tissues and by-products of decay, and still others preying on the scavengers. Using actual cases on which he has consulted, Goff shows how knowledge of these insects and their habits allows forensic entomologists to furnish investigators with crucial evidence about crimes. Even when a body has been reduced to a skeleton, insect evidence can often provide the only available estimate of the postmortem interval, or time elapsed since death, as well as clues to whether the body has been moved from the original crime scene, and whether drugs have contributed to the death. An experienced forensic investigator who regularly advises law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad, Goff is uniquely qualified to tell the fascinating if unsettling story of the development and practice of forensic entomology.