Did you know bed bugs can live for a year without eating? Or that head lice use their huge claws to cling on to hairs? Or that around 1 billion bacteria live on each one of your teeth?
This book zooms in on some of the weird and wonderful creatures - such as ticks, mites, lice and viruses - that live on and in our bodies. Learn about the creepy crawlies that live in your eyelashes, and meet the worms that feast on half-digested food in your gut.
The Zoom In On series shines a powerful light on a world so small that it's normally invisible. Scientists can zoom in on the strange creatures that live there. Now you can look down the microscope and see them too, if you dare...
- ISBN10 0750294493
- ISBN13 9780750294492
- Publish Date 10 September 2015 (first published 14 June 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Wayland
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English