{"product_id":"2940014733939","title":"Book of Monsters: Portraits and Biographies of a Few of the Inhabitants of Woodland and Meadow","description":"Book of Monsters: Portraits and Biographies of a Few of the Inhabitants of Woodland and Meadow by David and Marian Fairchild\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopyrighted by National Geographic Society 1914\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eHow the Monster Photographs Were Taken\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Spider World\u003cbr\u003eAn Eight Eyed Enemy of the Fly; A Jumping Spider\u003cbr\u003eReady to Pounce on a Fly on the Wing; The Jumping Spider\u003cbr\u003eA Jumping Spider Ready to Spring from a Leaf \u003cbr\u003eThe Wolf-Spider \u003cbr\u003eThe Cast off Outer Skeleton of a Wolf-Spider \u003cbr\u003eThe Spiny-bellied Spider Which Builds Nets across the Path \u003cbr\u003eThe Bird-Dropping Spider, a Creature with Protective Coloring \u003cbr\u003eThe Aerial Trapper: The Orb-Weaving Spider \u003cbr\u003eOrb-Weaver Filled with a Thousand Eggs Which She Lays All At Once \u003cbr\u003eA Spider from a Fly’s Point of View \u003cbr\u003eThe Mother Spider and Her Nest: A Nursery of Little Cannibals\u003cbr\u003eA Vagabond Spider \u003cbr\u003eThe Male Grass Spider \u003cbr\u003eThe Crab Spider That Lurks around the Nectaries of Flowers \u003cbr\u003eA Front View of a Mature Male Spider\u003cbr\u003eThe Daddy-Long-Legs or Harvestman \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Insect World\u003cbr\u003eStraight-Winged Insects \u003cbr\u003eThe King Grasshopper \u003cbr\u003eA Baby Grasshopper\u003cbr\u003eA Young Grasshopper’s Skeleton\u003cbr\u003eThe Grasshopper is Good to Eat\u003cbr\u003eA Grasshopper’s Ear Is under Its Wing \u003cbr\u003eThe Grasshopper’s Hearing Organ \u003cbr\u003eThe Short-Winged Green Locust \u003cbr\u003eThe Katydid \u003cbr\u003eThe Narrow-Winged Katydid\u003cbr\u003eA Young Katydid \u003cbr\u003eThe Cricket on the Hearth \u003cbr\u003eThe Ground Cricket\u003cbr\u003eThe Stone or Camel Cricket \u003cbr\u003eA Monster of the Underworld: The Mole Cricket \u003cbr\u003eThe Cockroach \u003cbr\u003eA Demon Fly Killer: The Praying Mantis \u003cbr\u003eThe Order of the Bugs \u003cbr\u003eThe Squash Bug \u003cbr\u003eA Strange-Shaped Bug \u003cbr\u003eA Queer, Unworldly Monster \u003cbr\u003eThe Thread-Legged Bug \u003cbr\u003eThe Assassin Bug \u003cbr\u003eAn Assassination \u003cbr\u003eThe Cicada \u003cbr\u003eThe Ambush Bug \u003cbr\u003eA Bug That Is Always Walking Around \u003cbr\u003eThe Tarnished Plant Bug \u003cbr\u003eThe Lantern Fly Bug \u003cbr\u003eThe Beetles \u003cbr\u003eThe June Beetle \u003cbr\u003eThe June Beetle Larva \u003cbr\u003eOne of the June Bugs or May Beetles \u003cbr\u003eOne of the Twig-Pruners \u003cbr\u003eThe Predaceous Ground Beetle \u003cbr\u003eThe Clover Leaf Weevil \u003cbr\u003eThe Spotted Vine Chafer in Flight \u003cbr\u003eOne of the Blister or Cantharides Beetles \u003cbr\u003eA Hippopotamus among the Insects \u003cbr\u003eOne of the Longicorn Beetles \u003cbr\u003eAn American Scarab \u003cbr\u003eThe Twelve-Spotted Cucumber Beetle \u003cbr\u003eOne of the Sawyers \u003cbr\u003eTwo-Winged Insects \u003cbr\u003eThe Crane Fly \u003cbr\u003eAn Insect Hawk: One of the Robber Flies \u003cbr\u003eA Robber Fly \u003cbr\u003eAnother View of the Robber Fly \u003cbr\u003eOne of the Large Robber Flies \u003cbr\u003eOne of the Worst of the Robber Flies\u003cbr\u003eThe Culex Mosquito \u003cbr\u003eOne of the Harmless Anopheles Mosquitos\u003cbr\u003eOne of the Bee Flies \u003cbr\u003eAnother of the Bee Flies\u003cbr\u003eLarge Syrphid Fly \u003cbr\u003eNot a House Fly \u003cbr\u003eThe Horse Fly \u003cbr\u003eA Green-Headed Horse Fly \u003cbr\u003eFeathered Insects\u003cbr\u003eLarva of the Swallow-Tail Butterfly of the Spice-Bush \u003cbr\u003eFore Part of a Brown Butterfly \u003cbr\u003eYellow Butterfly \u003cbr\u003eA Baby of the Skipper Butterfly \u003cbr\u003eA Butterfly’s Mummy Case\u003cbr\u003eA Moth\u003cbr\u003eNot Good to Eat\u003cbr\u003eA Hairy Spectacle \u003cbr\u003eAn Unknown Caterpillar\u003cbr\u003eA Caterpillar Devoured by a Fungus \u003cbr\u003eNerve-Winged Insects \u003cbr\u003eThe Dragon-Fly\u003cbr\u003eThe Dragon-Fly and Its Victim \u003cbr\u003eDragon-Fly Nymph Masked \u003cbr\u003eDragon-Fly Nymph Unmasked\u003cbr\u003eAn Abandoned Dragon Case\u003cbr\u003eThe Damsel Fly \u003cbr\u003eThe Lace-winged Fly and the Aphis Lion \u003cbr\u003eThe Winged Ant Lion \u003cbr\u003eThe Scorpion Fly \u003cbr\u003eA Soldier Termite \u003cbr\u003eThe Stinging Insects \u003cbr\u003eThe Portrait of a Bald-Faced Hornet \u003cbr\u003eThe Queen Hornet \u003cbr\u003eThe Yellow Jacket \u003cbr\u003eOne of the Social Wasps \u003cbr\u003eA Mud Dauber Wasp \u003cbr\u003eThe Food of a Mud Dauber’s Baby\u003cbr\u003eThe Fig Insect on Which Depends a Great Plant Industry \u003cbr\u003eThe Cow Killer or Velvet Ant--A Wingless Wasp \u003cbr\u003eThe Worker Bumble-Bee \u003cbr\u003eThe Pollen Plates of the Bumble-Bee \u003cbr\u003eThe Bumble-Bee at Work\u003cbr\u003eThe Telltale Milkweed Pollen \u003cbr\u003eThe Poor Male Bumble-Bee \u003cbr\u003eSolitary Leaf-Cutting Bee \u003cbr\u003eThe Stinger of the Leaf-Cutting Bee \u003cbr\u003eA Common Red Ant \u003cbr\u003eA Black Ant\u003cbr\u003eAnt Gathering Nectar from Leaf Nectaries of the Chinese Wood-Oil Tree\u003cbr\u003eThe Ichneumon Fly: Enemy of the Spider \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The World of Myriapods and a Single Land Crustacean\u003cbr\u003eA Millipede, One of the Vegetarian Myriapods\u003cbr\u003eA Centipede, One of the Carniverous Myriapods \u003cbr\u003eTwo Pill Bugs \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pictures in this book are portraits of creatures which are as much the real inhabitants of the world as we are (continued…)","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172500750576,"sku":"2940014733939","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014733939_p0.jpg?v=1763614739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014733939","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}