Jessa Thurman

You can find them hiding under logs, crawling up trees, or even flying in your face! Insects of Australia are incredibly diverse, weird, and wonderful. Meet the heaviest moth in the world, leaves that dance, and bugs that make good mums! Come to love the beautiful cockroaches of the desert and the caterpillars that carry their homes with them. Reveal...

A 2022 Whitley award winner for zoological literature (Children's Natural History category). Explore modern Australian insects, non-insect hexapods, and life cycles. Their importance to the ecosystems of our world, and to our own survival, cannot be overstated. However, it can be challenging to relate to them as fellow living beings when their body’s structure and function are so dramatically different...