Leon’s Favorite Bug
By Lisa Ball
My name is Leon and I love stickbugs. They look just like sticks. But they are bugs! I use my magnifying glass to see tiny little bugs look much BIGGER.
The magnifying glass makes my stickbug look HUGE.
I found a bee hive and a swarm of bees. The bees where everywhere. They will sting you if you bother them, so I just left them alone.
In the garden I found a spider. It was climbing up a thin piece of silk. It was so thin you could barely see it. Spiders make silk. It’s web was made of silk and bugs get stuck in it then the spider eats them.
On the ground there are lots of wormy looking creatures. Inch worms, centipedes and earth worms all look similar but some have legs and some have feet and some don’t have anything but a body. Some are worms but some are not.
Ants are so tiny that I could barely see them without the magnifying glass. They have 3 sections; their head, the middle section that has 6 legs and the abdomen.
It is so amazing that a beautiful butterfly starts out as a caterpillar then the caterpillar forms itself into a ‘pupa’ (or chrysalis) - a kind of vessel in which the caterpillar lives in while it changes into a butterfly.
Ladybugs are awesome. They eat little bugs called aphids. This is good because aphids eat leaves on rose bushes. They damage beautiful rose bushes.
OUCH! A mosquito bit me. The mosquito has a proboscis, which is like a hypodermic needle. She used it to pierce my skin and suck my blood. Mosquito bites hurt and itch. I don’t like them.
Dragonflies eat mosquitoes. They look really scary but they are nice. They don’t bite people.
Grasshoppers have really long legs. The fold them up then stretch them out to jump very high. They are so fun to watch.
Late at night, when the sun goes down and it is dark out, fireflies start blinking. They fly around blinking very slowly. They are easy to catch and put in a jar. I only keep them for a little while then I let them go back to the woods to be with their friends.
Then I go in the house and go to sleep. And I dream about my favorite bug. The stickbug.
The End