Let’s Find and Care for Insects

3 Insects on the Ground

text and photos by Manabu Tsutsui

This hands-on guide introduces children to the insects they can find on and beneath the ground. Step by step, it shows how to search for, gently catch, and care for insects while observing their growth, moulting, and metamorphosis. With detailed explanations, vivid photographs, and research tips, this series updates a classic reference into a practical and engaging resource that supports school science learning and independent discovery.

Featured insects include pill bugs, ants, earwigs, antlions, mole crickets, ground beetles, burying beetles, and cicada larvae.

29 x 24 cm, 40 pages, Full-colour photographs
First published September 2025