Biggest Bugs Life-Size

Biggest Bugs Life-Size by Beccaloni, George. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781554076994.

Life-sized photos of the worlds biggest bugs in full color. Biggest Bugs Life-size is a veritable jump-off-the-page spectacle for bug enthusiasts. It is the first book to include color photographs of 38 of the worlds biggest, heaviest, longest and mightiest bugs reproduced at their actual size. Concise text gives all of the essential facts, including the bugs size, what it eats and who discovered it. Maps show where the bugs live. The books dramatic gatefold shows the worlds longest bug -- at 22-inches, the Chans megastick is almost as long as an adults arm. There is also the gargantuan cockroach, with the longest wingspan in the world, and the potentially pesky gigantea beefly, which is as big as a human eyeball. Even the names are big: giant hawker dragonfly, colossus earwig, giant tarantula hawk wasp, goliath bird-eating spider, Amazonian giant centipede, titan longhorn beetle. Biggest Bugs Life-size shows the bugs as they are in real life, in brilliant color and in enormous photographs that readers wont soon forget.