Bumble Bee Dance
By Marcia Beckford What attracted the first bee Who ignored my gentle swats It buzzed with a purpose Unknown to me No flowers on the patio table Nor perfumed smells…..
Category: Fun Facts
True bugs
by: Macia BeckfordAll bugs are insects. Not all insects qualify. Let’s take a good spy!Metamorphosislabeled incomplete because larvae, pupa nixed.Egg, nymph and adult! Nymph molts often to mature as helper….
Arthropods: Earths most abundant creatures – a haiku
By: Marcia BeckfordJobs:Earths most abundant creatures.They’re called arthropods.Who pollinate, recycle.They’re plentiful in our world Decomposes clean.Restore nutrients to the soil.Earth’s most abundant creatures.Predators and prey.Participants in food web.Description:All have exoskeleton.A….
Social and Solitary Wasps
by: Marcia BeckfordFly with dangling legs, build a nest, buzzSting those big, like a humanbite those small, like insects and arachnids ‘causeAs predator, pollinator, omnivoreWasps protect the garden as their….
Roly Poly Poem
By: Marcia BeckfordRoly Poly, wood lice, pill or potato bugDifferent names describe those involved.A land crustacean, not a lice nor a bugAn Isopod or non insect arthropod.They have modified gills….
Entomologist Jessica Ware
Poem by Marcia Beckford Spread the word! Entomologist Jessica Ware works to inform. An effort to slow down, and to lessen the gross insect depletion. In some groups as high….
Sphatika, the Sphinx Moth
Sphatika, the Sphinx Moth By: Marcia Beckford I admit to feeling snagged the past few days. ‘Twas a loop of videos I found myself watching. Newborns, the subject of the distraction. When….
Horseshoe Crab
These arthropod swam and walked around before the Ankylosaurid. Renown as the only chelicerate that’s not a true arachnid. A living fossil whose ten eyes provide a panoptic shield. As….
Dog-day cicadas
When teaching Bug Safari, I always encourage families to explore their backyards with a sense of curiosity. And, to take their cell phone camera ready to capture something familiar, unfamiliar,….
Poem by Marcia
I bought a container of four hornworms. Best known as tomato plant eaters. Instead of four, Surprised by one large caterpillar. Left to wonder, did it cannibalize the other three?….