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Insects, Taste food with their feet., Class activity: Design a fly trap…

- - - - Some have wings. different colors and textures of their body.
    - - "With an estimated 5.5 million species," (THOMPSON EARTH SYSTEMS INSTITUTE, 2023)
  - - - Outdoor activity:
        Recognize and count insects in the garden play area
  - - - These insects live for about a year
    - - Spiders and cockroaches - 2 years
        
        Flies - 15-25 days
        
        Bees - 2-3 years
        
        Caterpillars - 3-4 week
      - Mosquitos- 1 month
    - - Experiment: watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly
- - - - "Insect farming for food and animal feed could offer an environmentally friendly solution to the impending food crisis;" (World economic forum,2021)
    - - Bees are known as common pollinators. Insects such as butterflies, moths and beetles pollinate too.
      - Pollination increases the quality and quantity of crops
      - "Three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants and about 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce."(U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,2023)
    - - Female mosquitoes feed on blood.
        Male mosquitoes feed of plants.
        Mosquitoes carry diseases (malaria, zika virus)
      - Bees sting
        Some people are allergic to bee stings and can become seriously ill.
      - Some insects feed of our plants destroying them.
      - Class activity:
        Problem solving and class discussion about getting bitten by mosquitoes activities:
        What are the home remedies for insect bites.
- - - - observation Activity using Fascinations AntWorks:
        Watch how ants dig out of the sand.