Life In A Bucket of Soil

If you like underground critters then you'll enjoy this book! You can find a bountiful sampling of these underground inhabitants simply by filling a bucket of soil. This book vividly describes this unseen world. You will learn about tunnel-building earthworms, roundworms, snails and slugs, woodlice, centipedes, beetles, spiders, ants, and numerous others. Suggestions for collecting specimens and explanations of how to preserve and study them are discussed. More than 70 detailed black-and-white drawings. Indexed, 96 pages, paperback. (NOTE: Darwin's experiment with earthworms is discussed, though no reference to evolution appears.)96 pages, paperback, 6 3/8"x9".