If you
don't like having caterpillars
in your garden, that's too bad. Because, when caterpillars turn into
butterflys, they can help you a lot.
Butterflys
pollinate
your flowers. So don't hurt any caterpillars -- leave them alone on
a leaf! And that's all!
Mommy
says, that pollination means: taking pollen from one flower to
another, so that the flower can make babies -- or the seeds
that can become
baby plants. (Some of these seeds will be inside fruits!)
The Monarch
butterfly could
become extinct if there aren't anymore milkweed plants. This is
because the Monarch lays its eggs on the milkweed plant. When the
baby caterpillars hatch out of the eggs, they eat the milkweed. The
milkweed plant has stuff in it that makes the caterpillars taste
really bad to the birds who would like to eat them. When the
caterpillars turn into butterflys, they still taste bad! Once a bird
has tried to eat a Monarch, it knows to leave them alone!
Bees
make honey for themselves and their babies and their queen.
Beekeepers keep bees and let the bees make the honey. The extra honey
they put in jars for us. Bees can make dances to show other bees
where the flowers are before it's winter.
Lady bugs
have four wings. The first set of wings are protection wings. They
protect the delicate wings. Lady bugs eat aphids. Lady bugs are good
bugs for your garden, because aphids could eat up your plants. And
that's all!
Some
people in China believe crickets bring good luck. They also make nice
noise. When you are walking and you can hear a cricket very well,
they turn their sound like it was far away. They make their sound by
rubbing their wings together. You can feed them to your pet lizard.
House
flies are a really big pest. Today my mom told my dad to buy a fly swatter!
A house
fly's eyes are different from ours. A house fly's eyes see about a
thousand of each thing they look at. I think it would be creepy if we
saw a monster, but if a fly saw one, he would be scared out of
his wits -- because it would look like hundreds of monsters!
