Our information and activities about turtles today were inspired by A Place for Turtles by Melissa Stewart and illustrated by Higgins Bond, the newest picture book in the A Place For… series. In a sequence of two-page spreads, Stewart explains an environmental threat to turtles and then reveals what humans can do about it. For […]
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“What is it?” the woman asked, and handed me this creature. “Cool,” I said, which is probably not what most people would say :-). It turns out I knew exactly what it was. This fearsome-looking invertebrate has a number of common names, such as sunspider, windscorpion, camel spider, solfugid or solpugid. It belongs to the […]
It is so fun to travel to new places and meet new insects. Take, for example, the banded woolly bear, Pyrrharctia isabella. We don’t have this species of caterpillar in the low deserts of Arizona (although we do have another type people call woolly-worms). Banded woolly bears like this one are found further north, where […]
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