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Month: July 2010 (Page 4 of 6)

Festival of the Trees #50 hosted here this month

July 16, 2010 / / 0 Comments

Dear Growing Readers,

I am hosting the 50th edition of the Festival of the Trees carnival here at Growing With Science blog at the end of the month. The theme is Trees Through a Child’s Eyes.

Let me know if you have any child-friendly posts about trees that you would like to share. Ideas include bark rubbings, children’s drawings of trees and leaves, ideas for or photographs of tree houses, nature journals with tree themes, photos from a favorite walk through the woods, science experiment ideas, etc. Of course, we would welcome reviews of good children’s books about trees as well.

Please send your links to growingwithscience {at} gmail (dot) com with Festival of the Trees in the subject line by June July 29.

Looking forwarding to hearing from you,

-Roberta

Festival of the Trees

tree-climbing

P.S. To those of you who subscribe to more than one of my blogs, I apologize for the duplicate post. Just trying to get the word out to everyone…

Bug of the Week: Millipedes

July 14, 2010 / / 0 Comments

We found some of these in the bottom of a potted plant we brought home from the nursery this week.

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Although it has antennae, it definitely has too many legs to be an insect larva.

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In fact, you can see that it has two pairs of legs per body segment. That means it is a millipede.

millepedes

Millipedes are often found in damp soil or rotting logs. Most feed on decomposing plant matter, so they are nature’s recyclers.

millepede-rolled

Millipedes do not bite or sting, and are relatively harmless. They do have the ability to emit various chemicals to defend themselves (depending on the kind), so it is best not to pick them up. Their main defense, however, is to roll up into a ball.

If you are interested in finding out more, Enchanted Learning has an information sheet with a nice drawing showing all the parts of a millipede.

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