YEAR OF GARDEN BEES AND BUGS (HB)

Every day, just outside your back door, a secret drama is taking place. Here are 52 minibeasts from around the world, each of which reveals a different aspect of the insect world: the house spider building a new web each morning, the vast appetite of ladybirds, the glory of the Stag beetle's maiden flight, the life of the backdoor scorpions in South Africa. Woven into accounts of these creatures’ behaviour are informative nuggets such as Cardinal Wolsey's fear of spiders and how flies can solve murders.