Invertebrate Books

Check here for our selection of invertebrate books. We have a large number of books covering the care and breeding of tarantulas, scorpions, crabs, and mantids.

Land Hermit Crabs
  • $3.99 each

Size: 56 pages

By: Philippe de Vosjoli

Animal Planet Hermit Crabs
  • $7.99 each

Size: 80 pages

By Carol Frischmann

Tarantulas & Scorpions in Captivity
  • $8.99 each

Size: 102 pages

By: Russ Gurley

Color Guide to Tarantulas of the World
  • $3.99 each

Size: 41 pages

By Russ Gurley

Ants of North America- a Guide to the Genera
  • $34.99 each

Size: 174 pages

Authors: Brian L Fisher and Stefan P Cover

Adventures Among Ants
  • $18.99 each

Size: 280 pages

By Mark Moffett

Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity
  • $63.99 each

Size: 736 pages

By Stephen Marshall. Meticulously researched and illustrated with color photographs, Insects is a landmark reference book that is ideal for any naturalist or entomologist.

Spiders: The Ultimate Predators
  • $21.99 each

Size: 208 pages

By Stephen Dalton. Provides fascinating information on the astonishing array of techniques spiders use for catching their prey: trapping in webs, lassoing, jumping, stealing, chasing, ambushing, spitting, fishing and more!

Amazing Insects: Images of Fascinating Creatures
  • $22.99 each

Size: 288 pages. Softback

By Michael Chinery. Michael Chinery describes the natural science of insects -- their life cycles, camouflage and defense, predators and prey, and habitats. Over 250 spectacular color photographs

Weird Insects
  • $9.99 each

Size: 64 pages. Softback

By Michael Woreck. Insects account for more than half of the more than 17,000,000 named species of living things. This fascinating book reveals a rare and close up look at the odd beauty of some of the strangest of these tiny creatures.

Dragonflies: Catching - Identifying - How and Where They Live
  • $6.95 each

Size: 32 pages. Softback

By Chris Earley. Dragonflies are as fascinating as they are beautiful. In this book readers will learn how to observe them in the wild and have them hover as close as their nose!

Caterpillars: Find - Identify - Raise Your Own
  • $6.95 each

Size: 32 pages. Softback

By Chris Earley. With helpful tips and tricks, this guide instructs the caterpillar hunter on how to find, identify, feed and care for these amazing insects.

How to Raise Monarch Butterflies: A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids
  • $8.95 each

Size: 48 pages. Softback

By Carol Pasternak. With more than 50 unique, close-up photographs readers will learn about the life cycle of the Monarch and how to encourage populations in their own backyards, with tips on which plants to grow, as well as the care and feeding

Biggest Bugs - Life Size
  • $17.95 each

Size: 84 pages

By George Beccaloni. 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 world's biggest, heaviest, longest and mightiest bugs reproduced at their actual size

Insect Museum
  • $32.99 each

Size: 256 pages

By Sonia Dourlot. Insect Museum features 114 extreme close-up photographs of butterflies, dragonflies, beetles and flies, as well as spiders and centipedes, that allow readers to appreciate fully the subtle esthetics of each insect's form

500 Insects - A Visual Reference
  • $24.99 each

Size: 528 pages. Hardcover

By Stephen Marshall. A selection of 500 of the most interesting and representative insects from N and S America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand, each illustrated by a photograph in their natural habitat and captioned with informative factfiles.

 Venomous Animals of the United States and Canada
  • $45.00 each

Species: TCB-Ven

By Lawrence L. C. Jones. Venomous Animals of North America is the first comprehensive accounting of these fascinating animals of land and sea, from the United States, Canada, and American territories.