Ant

• Parth Mody• Bridget Burke

What does the ant look like?

• Six legs

• Black, brown, yellow, red

• 2 antenna

• Carry big leaves

What does the ant eat?

• Eat caterpillars, scorpions, cockroaches, and other ants

• Chomp and chew

• Don’t eat crops

• Can travel thousands of feet to find food

Where does the ant live?

• live in plants underground under logs, in cracks of sidewalks

• hill out of sand or earth

• Do not migrate

• Beneath oak tree lives acorn ant

Honey Bees

• Colleen Moore

• Amanda Stone

• Charlotte Park

What does the bee look like?

• Six legs

• 2 antennae- smell

• Yellow, black, furry

• Compound eyes

What does the bee eat?

• Pollen and honey

• Pollen on legs

• Sucks nectar with a long tongue

• Helpful by making flowers

Where does the bee live?

• All states

• In hive-60,000

• Six sided cell called honeycomb

• Stay together to keep warm

Butterfly

• Ryan Lazaar• Emily Clark

What does butterfly look like?

• Six legs

• Straw mouth part

• Black, yellow, white, orange

• Fly if body temperature above 86 degrees

What does the butterfly eat?

• Drink nectar from flowers

• Help flowers grow

• Caterpillars eat leaves

• Only drink liquid using proboscis

Where does the butterfly live?

• Trees at night

• South in winter

• Trees and flowers

• Hot, cold, dry, misty areas

Cicada

• John Joseph

• Alexandra Voutsinas

What does the cicada look like?

• Black, red, yellow, green or orange

• Head, thorax, abdomen

• Two antennae

• Move abdomen to make sound

What does the cicada eat?

• Tree sap

• Pointy tube pokes into tree

• Important food for other animals

• Feed on plants

Where does the cicada live?

• Tropical countries

• Live on trees

• Below to above

• 6-17 years under ground as nymphs

Cricket

• Brandon Micciche

• Emma Holmes

What does the cricket look like?

• Four wings

• Black or brown

• Eggs look like small baby bananas

• Chirping increases with the temperature

What does the cricket eat?

• Small insects and leaves

• Chomp and chewing

• Harmful to humans

• Cow manure and crab meat

Where does the cricket live?

• Crickets live in United States or Europe

• Crickets settle grassy riverbanks

• Goes underground and hibernates

• All crickets live together

Dragonfly

• Alex Kieffer

• Tara Schmidt

What does the dragonfly look like?

• Big eyes

• Green, blue or red

• Has a smile looking mouth

• Pattern on abdomen

What does the dragonfly eat?

• Tadpoles, small frogs, larvae of other insects, small fish, and crustaceans

• Bites and chews

• Hold legs in a shape of a basket

• Has sharp spikes on legs

Where does the dragonfly live?

• Water, gliding over water, air

• lives near streams, ponds, marshes, lakes, rivers, and even waterfalls

• Live in every part of the world

• Live in deserts or other dry places

Fireflies

• Morgan Johnson

• Corinne Pressing

What does the firefly look like?

• Two pairs of wings

• One and one/fifth inches

• Pliers mouth

• Firefly are beetles

What does the firefly eat?

• Larva eat fireflies, insects and snails

• Eat bugs that eat plants

• Paralyzes the prey with venom

• Drinks water from leaves

Where does the firefly live?

• Woods, fields, backyards

• Larva bury in soil to make home

• Does not migrate

• Not seen west of Kansas

Grasshoppers

• BRANDON JENNINGS

• HANNAH SPICER

What does the grasshopper look like?

• Green or brown

• Four and a half inches

• Five eyes

• Head, thorax, abdomen

What does the grasshopper eat?

• Herbivore

• Plants, seed, and grass

• Swarms eat every plant

• Farmers’ crops

Where does the grasshopper live?

• Everywhere except North and South Pole

• Live in the grass and plants

• Do not build houses

• Most do not migrate

Ladybugs

• Thomas Weed

• Hannah Needham

What does the ladybug look like?

• Black, red, yellow, brown, white, orange

• Pliers mouth parts

• 3/8ths of an inch

• Beats its wings 85 times per second

What does the ladybug eat?

• Aphids and tiny creatures

• Chew from side to side

• Eat garden pests like aphids and mealy bugs

• Eat about hundred aphids a day

Where does the ladybug live?

• Where there are plants and aphids

• Under tree bark, in attics, sheds, and leaves

• 5,000 kinds of ladybugs in the world

• Eat fat during hibernation

Praying Mantis

• Justin Shapiro

• Maura Belcher

What does the praying mantis look like?

• Pliers mouth

• Green, gray, pink, brown, brown-green

• Thorax, head, abdomen

• Name from praying pose

What does the praying mantis eat?

• Wasps, poisonous spiders, other mantises, birds, and mice

• Chomp and chew with mandibles

• Eat insects that eat crops

• Bites neck of prey and eats it alive

Where does the Praying Mantis live?

• Green plants, gray tree bark, pink flowers, where there are warm springs

• Lay eggs fall, hatch spring

• Egg case protects eggs during winter

• Change color where they go

We hope you enjoyed our presentation.

Thank you for coming!

Mrs. Stenerson’s and Mrs. Hill’s class

Thank you to all our parent volunteers!

•Other parent helpers

•Room mothers