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Violet dropwing dragonfly If you could decide to be a butterfly, bee, or bug, what would it be? There are over a trillion different bugs, so if you don’t want to call attention to yourself, perhaps a bug is your best way to blend in. But be careful. If you become a tiny bug, you might end up as lunch for a praying mantis. Maybe you would choose to be a butterfly. Orange and black monarch butterflies can fly over 1000 miles! Or perhaps you might like to be a dragonfly. Don’t worry about people being afraid of you because of your big size. Dragonflies don’t bite humans unless they are threatened. Don’t choose to be a honeybee unless you like to be very busy. They work hard to provide…

Finding Backyard Bugs

I’m a backyard bug hunter. I love exploring for bugs. Those small, fascinating creatures that crawl, jump, and fly are all around! One could be running across the sidewalk, hiding quietly in the grass, or sitting unseen on a leaf right in front of me. Bugs are not always easy to find. But when I see one, I’m excited! Most of the creatures I find on my bug-hunting adventures are insects. Insects have six legs, two antennae (pronounced an-teh-nee), one or two pairs of wings, and three body sections. An insect’s shape might change as it grows from a baby to an adult. For example, a caterpillar may someday turn into a beautiful butterfly or moth! Sometimes I see spiders. They are not insects, but arachnids (pronounced uh-rak-nids). Ticks and…

Finding Backyard Bugs

Cowboy Clark & Larry

Cowboy Clark and Larry were in the park, stretched out on the cool grass, when Larry saw a butterfly land on Cowboy Clark’s paw. He whispered, “Shh . . . don’t move.” Cowboy Clark raised his head. “What?” “Be quiet,” Larry shushed him. “There’s a butterfly on your paw.” “Hello, boys,” Mrs. Whiskers said, arriving at the park. Irritated from being awakened from a nice sun-warm nap, Cowboy Clark plopped his head back down and sniped, “What are you doing here?” In a low voice, Larry implored, “Be quiet. You’re going to scare it away.” Mrs. Whiskers said, “Not to worry, Larry.” She nodded at the butterfly. “That’s a black swallowtail. They can’t hear.” “Really?” “Really. Most butterflies can’t hear. For the longest time, it was believed they didn’t have…

Cowboy Clark & Larry

Rainbow Grasshopper

Rainbow-striped grasshopperBest-in-your-class hopper!Tiny flap wingsBut those legs built like springsPack a crackerjack punch.You’re no cockatoo lunch! Rainbow grasshoppers are also known as painted grasshoppers, barber pole grasshoppers, or by their official name Dactylotum bicolor. They grow tiny wing-pads on their backs, but these wings are so small that rainbow grasshoppers cannot fly. If you want to find a rainbow grasshopper, you’ll need to hunt in the grasslands of Texas, Arizona, or New Mexico. However, you might find them as far north as Canada or as far south as Mexico. Birds will probably not be hunting with you because many birds think rainbow grasshoppers taste icky!…

Rainbow Grasshopper

FRACTION-NITION by David Lindo Find the letters described by the fraction given in each statement. Print the letters you select, in the order provided, into the boxes to answer the riddle. What did you find? Were you surprised? The last 1/4 of DRAGThe first 1/2 of RASCALThe last 1/2 of DISHThe middle 1/2 of ROPEThe middle 1/5 of HAPPYThe first 1/3 of ERMINE What do you get if you feed a frog green four-leaf clovers? Bug Puzzlers by Guy Belleranti 1. Why was the bug always late? To find the answer, cross out all the BUGS in the puzzle below. Write the remaining letters, in order, in the boxes. B U G S H B U G S I S C L O B U G S B U G…

A Real-Life Hungry Caterpillar

Before a monarch becomes a butterfly, it is a real-life, very hungry caterpillar. Unlike the caterpillar in Eric Carle’s famous picture book, monarch caterpillars do not eat strawberries, chocolate cake, or Swiss cheese. These caterpillars will only eat the leaves, stems, and seed pods of milkweed and butterfly weed plants. Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on these host plants so when caterpillars hatch, they have food immediately available. Monarch butterflies have four different life stages. First, it is an egg. A monarch egg is about the size of a pencil tip and can be off-white or yellow in color. The egg hatches about five days after it is laid. Being a caterpillar is stage two. For the next two weeks, the tiny caterpillar that hatches spends all its time eating,…

A Real-Life Hungry Caterpillar

Honey From the Hive

Think of this: When you eat honey, you’re eating bee food! Honeybees make so much honey, there is enough for people to take a share and leave plenty for the bee colony. Just how do honeybees make delicious honey? It all starts with sweet, watery nectar. Buzz! Buzz! The weather is warm, and busy worker bees are visiting thousands of flowers. They are collecting pollen and nectar to make food so all the bees in the colony can eat all year long. Nectar is especially important, and they gather all they can. They slurp it up with their straw-like tongues. The nectar goes into a worker’s “honey stomach.” When this special stomach is full, it’s time to go home. Back at the nest, the worker bees vomit up the nectar.…

Honey From the Hive

Honey Raisin Cookies

Try making these delicious cookies with your family. In a large bowl, mix together: • 3/4 cup honey• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce• 2 eggs• 1 teaspoon vanilla Add 2 cups of raisins and mix again. In a different bowl, stir together: • 2-1/2 cups flour• 1 teaspoon salt• 1 teaspoon baking soda Add the flour mixture to the honey mixture in the larger bowl. Mix everything together. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Drop cookie dough by teaspoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes. Remove cookies from cookie sheet and let cool on a rack. Enjoy your sweet honey treat!…

Honey Raisin Cookies

DRAW CARTOON BEES

1. Design your character. This one is called Buzz. You can make your bees cute, harmless, or aggressive. I made my bee a tough guy bee. 2. Think about how many heads tall your character is. For example, the average human is seven and a half heads tall. Cartoon characters are more compact. These cartoon bees are all three heads tall. Keep the size of your bees the same if you draw a cartoon with lots of bees. 3. Design a doodle. Take your character and reduce it to its most basic shapes. Buzz is an oval, a round shape, antennae, and legs. 4. Practice, practice, practice! Before making strips and stories, draw your character again and again. Draw him or her doing as many different things as you can…

DRAW CARTOON BEES

Delightful Dragonflies

Have you ever seen a dragonfly? Because they are insects, they have three body parts: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. Large eyes help them see well. Each eye has up to 30,000 lenses! Your eyes have only one lens each. A dragonfly has two sets of large wings on its thorax. If you look closely, you will see net-like veins in the wings that actually help soak up the sun. The wings beat rapidly and help the dragonfly move forward, backward, and even sideways. A dragonfly can hover like a helicopter to stay still in the air. This helps it find food, like mosquitoes. It can fly 40 miles per hour, which helps it zoom away from predators, such as birds, spiders, and frogs. You will usually see…

Delightful Dragonflies

“Good eats,” you might say after bolting down a piece of your favorite pizza. But would you say the same about banana worm bread or chocolate-covered grasshoppers? How about grasshopper tortillas with stink bug salsa? Believe it or not, these and other insect foods are part of the diets of at least 2 billion – yes, that’s billion – people around the world. Hundreds of species of insects and bugs are considered “good eats.” They provide high levels of protein, minerals, and vitamins. For thousands of years, people have eaten locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers. Early in American history, some Native Americans ate fly pupae that washed up along a lakeshore. The worm-like creatures were gathered and dried in the sun. Then they were mixed with seeds or acorns to make…

You can find insects anywhere – in woods, in fields, in deserts, in jungles, in water, on ice, in your yard, and sometimes even in your house. Scientists believe that insects are the most common animals on Earth. A butterfly looks very different from an ant – which looks very different from a grasshopper – which looks very different from a bumblebee – which looks very different from a cricket. They look so different you wouldn’t think insects have much in common, would you? But they do! It is easy to build a model of an insect that will show how all insects are related, despite how different they appear. What You Need: ● one small fruit or vegetable, like a cherry, grape, radish, or small onion ● one medium-sized…

Hear a Bug Stomping Around

There are many sounds too tiny for us to hear. Usually this is good. Imagine how noisy the world would be if we heard snowflakes crashing on the ground, or everyone’s heart beating, or the sounds of all the insects clomping around on their six legs. Scientists have heard these sounds, but they had to use amplifiers to help their ears. You can make an amplifier very easily, and you can hear some tiny sounds too. YOU WILL NEED: • a clean, empty Styrofoam cup• a piece of clear plastic wrap, large enough to cover the mouth of the cup• a rubber band• an insect NOTE: You will have to catch the insect for this experiment. It can be a fly, grasshopper, a cricket, or any kind of insect you…

Hear a Bug Stomping Around

Send Us... your letters, drawings, poems, jokes & riddles, and photos for publication! EMAIL TO: kidzcorner@funforkidz.com OR MAIL TO: Kidz Corner, PO Box 227 Bluffton, OH 45817-0227 ATTENTION READERS! Write to Ziggy, the Fun For Kidz dog. If you write to Ziggy, he will write back to you! Send letters to: Fun For Kidz, Attn. Ziggy PO Box 227, Bluffton, OH 45817-0227 My Naughty Pet by Avyaan Rangbulla, age 9 My pet snuck into a bird’s nest and snatched an egg out of it.When the shell was about to crack, the fastest falcon came and managedto shoo away the pet.It sent the message to the other colony of falcons.They managed to chase my pet away.My pet was excellent at running and was extremely fresh. So he ran away.His tummy…

Puzzle Solutions

Ladybug Sudoku on page 11 Fraction-nition on page 10 What do you get if you feed a frog green four-leaf clovers? GRASSHOPPER Bug Puzzlers on page 10 1. HIS CLOCK ROACH WAS OUT OF TICKS. 2. THE SCORE-PION Insect Maze on page 10 Valentine's Day Hooray on page 29 Mystery Picture Puzzle on page 11 Solve the Bee Riddles on page 10-11 1. HIVE AND SEEK 2. BEE BEE SITTERS 3. A BUZZINESSMAN Photo Credits: Photos by Susan Richardson, 4-7; Pavel Kirillov (Painted grasshopper) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons 10; Denise & Steve Wilcox, 14 (top, bottom); 15 (left); 16-17; Monarch egg on milkweed leaf, USFWSmidwest, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons, 15 (right).…

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