Bibliograph

Mosquito bite, Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel

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Label

Mosquito bite, Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mosquito bite

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel

Summary

"READY-OR-NOT-HERE-I-COME." The boy listens. The girl is getting closer. Suddenly, there's another sound. A droning buzz. Something else is looking for the boy. The seeker is a mosquito, Culex pipiens, and her search is a matter of life and death. She must find food-blood-to nourish the hundreds of tiny eggs inside her body. Black-and-white photographs show the children's game of hide-and-seek, while astonishing micrographs show Culex and her world as seen through an electron microscope. Zoom in for a close-up view: A blade of grass looks like a menacing field of spines. A mosquito's eye becomes a bundle of tightly packed tubes. Discover the life story of a mosquito from a truly larger-than-life point of view

Target audience

juvenile

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