Bugzilla week 3
Books
Fiction
Nonfiction
Picture Books & Readers
Movies
Ant Bully
Antz
Bugs Life
Honey I
Shrunk the Kids
James and the
Giant Peach
Websites
Alien
Empire
Build a Monster Bug
Growing Up Creepy
World of
Giant Insects
Yuckiest Site of the
Internet
Fun Activities
Ant Maze (pdf) Help an
ant get back to the anthill with her grain of corn.
Giant Attack Bugs Project:
This project is adapted from
Bats, Butterflies and Bugs: A Book of
Action Toys by S. Adams Sullivan.
1. Print out copies of the
giant attack mosquito patterns
(pdf) and print onto card stock.
2. Have kids color the bugs, cut them out, and fold up the
wings. will enjoy gliding them or chasing each other with them
outside.
I Saw a Little Bug
(pdf) Can you find the names of 15 different bugs hidden in this
puzzle?
Bugzilla Crafts
Bizarre Egg Carton Caterpillars
Insect Headbands
Make Your Own Compound Eye
Extremely Buggy Facts
Daddy-long-legs look like long-legged
spiders but are actually relatives of spiders.
Millipedes cannot hurt people. They do look
similar to centipedes (their sometimes dangerous relatives), but
with two big differences: (1) millipedes have chewing mouthparts
and (2) millipedes have two pairs of legs for
each body segment (centipedes have only one pair of legs per
segment.
Cockroaches have been hated and feared for
centuries.
Dragonflies have as many as 30,000 lenses in
each eye.
The fossil dragonfly, Meganeura,
that lived about 250 million years ago was probably the largest
insect ever. Its wingspan was over two feet.
The heaviest insect is the goliath beetle in
Africa (weighs 1/4 pound and is 5 inches long). They belong to
the same family (scarab beetles as the eastern Hercules
beetle, which is about 2 inches long including the
horn.
The largest butterfly is the Queen Alexandra's
Birdwing from New Guinea (an endangered species), with
a wingspan of 11 inches.
The largest moth is Owlet moth of tropical
America, with a wingspan of 18 inches.
Egyptian mythology included the following
insects:
Dung beetles or scarabs-jewelry, dung rolling
reminded Egyptians of the sun (which they called Ra) rolling across
the sky each day.
Buprestid beetles-wood borers are
the symbol of a myth, where a goddess (Isis) brought a warrior
Odyssus back to life
Click beetles' backs are shaped like the shied of
ancient Egyptian soldiers.
Biting flies
were symbols of determination, perseverance, valor, gold medals in
the shape of the flies were given to soldiers.
Grasshoppers, dragonflies and bees were used in jewelry, as
a symbol of life on the Nile.
Praying mantis
were a symbol of funerals and the afterlife.
Jokes
What bug works for the CIA? The spyder
What do you get when you cross a bug with an orange?
Beetlejuice
What has 45 legs, 32 eyes and 65 teeth? I don't know either,
but it's crawling up your back!
What do you get if you cross a tarantula with a rose? I'm
not sure, but I wouldn't try to smell it!
Why did the tarantula stare at the hairbrush? He thought it
was a mirror.
Where does a 3,000-pound beetle sleep? Anywhere it wants to.