A Swallow Tail Butterfly Story

One summer afternoon, me and my father saw a swallow tail butterfly in our deck. It is a great mover and we took pictures of it. My mom was afraid of it. She doesn't like bugs and pets. That is all. It flew away.

Paper Wasp

The paper wasp is one of nature's finest architects. worker wasps scrape wood fibers from dead branches, which they mix with saliva or water to form a wet paper pulp for building their nests with. Unfortunately, their painful stings make paper wasps unwelcome neighbors. Getting rid of a colony that has moved in next to your home is no easy matter. Any threat to the nest triggers an attack by thousands of irate defenders.

A hornet story

While my friend was leaving the house, my mom opened the door to say bye. Somehow, a quick and slick hornet slipped in the house. My brother said it was not a hornet. To prove i was right, i looked in my bug book and found that it was a hornet.

Bug Story

Around second grade, somewhere in September and October i found a praying mantis on the front door. I thought it was a different bug. My dad kicked it but i told him not to because it is illegal to kill a praying mantis. I thought it was dead, but it was not. It creeped into our plants.

Elegant Grasshopper

Grasshoippers are best known for athletic leaps and chirping calls, but this flashy African jumper has a much nastier surprise in store. It's poisonous. The elegant grasshopper eats toxic plants and stores the toxins in its body as a defense against hungry predators. Most enemies know they should leave them alone. Zonocerus elegans is found from South Africa to Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zaire and Angola. The other type of elegant grasshopper, Zonocerus variegatus, is widespread in western and eastern Africa south of the Sahara. Both are equally happy in semidesert, dry forest, savannah, subtropical rain forest, farmland, or even gardens and they can be serious crop pests.

Armored Ground Crickets

Armored Ground Crickets are found throughout most part of Africa. Only the sandy deserts are too inhospitable for them. The species that inhabit mainly southern Africa are known as "koringkriek," an Afrikaans word meaning "wheat cricket." In some years, plagues of the insects appear, posing a serious threat to cereal crops. Armored Ground Crickets have armor that looks like spikes. Armored Ground Crickets do not waste anything, even the corpses of their comrades. When an Armored Ground Cricket dies, the other crickets feed on its flesh.

House centerpied

I found a house centerpied in the bathroom. It was fast and i got scared. It had so many legs. 100 actually. Iwas trapped in the bathroom in the corner. Then my mom came. I said it was right next to her and she screamed. After we took it outside, we went online to see what kind of centerpied it was.

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