Mini-beasts visiting our school garden
Rokutis Pre-primary School, Lithuania
Boružė – Ladybird by Erika (6)
Ladybirds live in the meadows. They like colourful flowers and green leaves. We used to see many of them but now they are not coming anymore. Maybe they are looking after their little children.
Ladybirds can fly and run very fast. They eat little bugs and aphids. Sometimes people call them the ‘God’s Cows’.
Ladybirds can tell if it is going to rain or not! Gently put it on your palm and say, ‘Rain – no rain, rain – no rain’. If it flies away when you say ‘Rain’ – it will rain, if you say ‘No rain’ – there won’t be any rain.
Sraigė – Snail by Austėja (5)
Snails are very slow because they have to carry their house with them everywhere. If they get scared they hide inside their house.
Snails live in the meadows and in the forest. There are a lot of snails by our school fence. In winter snails sleep under the leaves and wake up when the sunshine warms them up.
Snails eat leaves, grass, nettles and other plants.
Bitė – Bee
by Arminas (6)
Bees live in beehives. They have one queen bee, many workers and drones. Bees know how to make wax and they build honeycomb where they store their honey. Honey is very delicious and good for you.
Bees collect pollen and nectar from the flowers. They take nectar from our school flowers too and make honey.
Bees can protect themselves. They have a sting in their belly with poison. Poison is very painful but not deadly. A bee stung me once.
Skruzdėlė – Ant by Deividas (5)
Ants live in nests. They are very hard working and build them with little pine needles, small twigs and soil. They take scraps of food to their nests.
Ants are the cleaners of the nature. We see a lot of ants in our school garden but we don’t know where their nest is. Maybe it is built in a secret place.
Sometimes ants attack centipedes or other bugs and eat them.
We have more mini-beasts in our school garden.
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