poisonous arthropoda

Learn about venom and the animals that produce it and use it to survive, including spiders, insects, snakes and other reptiles, frogs, and toads, fish and the ocean invertebrates.

Introduces several types of insects that are poisonous and discusses how they use their poison to defend themselves and obtain food.

Describes in countdown format 10 of the world's most dangerous bugs.

Looks at the lives and behaviors of deadly insects, including puss caterpillars, killer bees, fire ants, mosquitoes, blister beetles, and scorpions, providing vital statistics on each bug, and accounts of their encounters with people.