It’s Tough to Be Tiny

It’s Tough to Be Tiny — page 1 — CONTENTS 8 It's tough to be tiny 10 Jump for your life Planthoppers Springtails 12 Shoot them with toxins Nudibranchs Millipedes 14 Wear armour Caddisflies Corals 16 Armour of glass Diatoms 18 Wear a disguise Spicebush swallowtail caterpillars Asian jewel beetles 20 Go for gross Tortoise beetles Water scavenger beetles 22 Tiny hunters Peacock spiders 24 Throw thing at em Cone snails Velvet worms 26 Bring it Stentor Hydra

It’s Tough to Be Tiny — page 2 — 28 Look harmless Walking flower mantis 30 Bite Dragonfly nymphs Epomis ground beetles 32 Amazing ways to hunt Jumping spiders Ogre faced spiders Turret spiders Bolas spiders Spitting spiders Fishing spiders Cribellate spiders Ant mimic spiders 34 Better buddy up Golden medusa jellyfish 36 Invisi squid Hawaiian bobtail squid 38 Protection Ants Boxer crabs 40 Why hunt when you can herd Aphids Sloths 42 Just out for a joyride Imperial shrimp 44 Maybe it's not so tough to be tiny after all

It’s Tough to Be Tiny — page 3 — IT'S TOUGH TO BE TINY When you're tiny some things feel out of reach Bigger creatures seem more powerful than you It's not easy to get noticed And sometimes you get squashed But there's tiny and then there's tiny 8 Tardigrades also known as water bears are smaller than the dot above this i

It’s Tough to Be Tiny — page 4 — When you're that tiny there are a lot of bigger creatures that want to eat you Wolf spider What's it like to be so small How do these tiny creatures stay safe or hunt for their lunch It helps to have a superpower Like spring loaded jumps or microscopic toxic darts Some tiny creatures have armour or wear a scary costume Some buddy up with a bigger creature which is pretty nice for the bigger creatures too Cricket

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