Sean's+Minibeast+Encyclopaedia


 * My Minibeast Encyclopaedia by Sean, Junior Entomologist **

Dragonflies
Dragonflies lay their eggs in the river. They stick together. The mum stays on a plant then the female goes down and down into the water. The female dies when she has laid the eggs.

Caterpillars
The caterpillars' eggs stick to the leaf. When the butterfly comes out of the cocoon, it will get eaten by a predator sooner or later.

Butterflies and Moths
Butterflies and moths are really nothing the same. The wings take them places so they don't walk

Spiders
Spiders are not really minibeasts. They have webs to make their homes to catch food and lots of other kinds of suff. Sometimes they live in the ground so they can sneek up on insects and eat them

Ants
Ants never sleep. That's why they die so young. Ants are very strong. Ants can carry two times their size. Ants have spikes all over them. That keeps them safe There are eany ants they eat everything. The legs of an ant are very strong. The job of the queen is to lay eggs. At night the worker ants have to move the queen's eggs to keep them safe. An ant's brain has about 250 000 brain cells. When new ants hatch they work as slaves within the colony.

Scorpions
Scorpions have a stinger to help them protect them. That's why they all ways win against enemies. They also have pincers to pick up their food.

Praying Mantis
Praying manti can eat meat. They are hunting praying manti. Praying manti stay still to catch food

Worms
Worms can live in water for for several weeks with enough oxygen. Worms move when they are cool, not when they are cold or dry. When it is hot, worms roll up into a circle until it is cool. When a worm is cut in half, the head bit can live because it hads a mouth and it can still eat but the tail bit can't live because it doesn't have a mouth. Worms don't have any eyes but they have sensory cells that are sensitive to light. Worms eat dead roots and sometimes live roots from plants. Worms put their head up when they are travelling forwards but they can also travel in reverse. Worms breathe through their skin, they are covered in mucus to allow this to happen easily. Worms can have a maximun of 1600 babies per year! They have 20 per cocoon and 80 cocoons per year. There are 3000 species of earthworms in the World; 28 are found in the UK. Worms become adults at between 10 and 55 weeks depending on the species. The largest earthworm in 300cm in length and 2cm in width. They are found in Gippsland.

Slaters
when slates are scared they coral in a ball. =grasshopper=