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Haiku Mondays: Jumping Spiders
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. This photo of mating jumping spiders is astounding! It was taken by Huub de Waard, a Dutch photographer who specializes in...
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A Molting Scorpion!
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. While collecting solifuges during field research in East Africa we often uncovered large Pandinus scorpions. We were SO excited when we...
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Cryptic Lichen Mantis
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. In 2007, when we were camping at Arabuko Sokoke National Park in Kenya, we almost missed this mantis hanging out on a tree trunk. The tree...
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Haiku Mondays: Dragonfly
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. Dragonfly on a Reed diamond facet eyes seeing all the way around simple yet compound Haiku Mondays: Dragonfly
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Beach Bugs (That’s an Arthropod???)
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. **This post is part of a PNW Blogger Scavenger Hunt! For more information on how to play and win prizes read the details here:...
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A Mite-y Discovery!
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. Sometimes, when we look at something from a different angle we can make some surprising discoveries. I was playing with my new Cosmos Digital...
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Orange is the New Awesome
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. October is a month where the color orange reigns supreme. Pumpkins, changing sugar maple leaves, wood fired stoves, candy corn and pumpkin...
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Monday Millipedes!
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. When we teach about arthropods, it can be difficult to illustrate that ALL of these animals have segmented bodies. When you’ve never seen an...
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Evidence of Animals (Frass Happens)
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. Sometimes finding the evidence of an animal is just as exciting and interesting as finding the animal itself. Unfurling a leaf I uncovered a...
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Aphids
The Bug Chicks - A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. Aphids, like the ones on this plant, can be major agricultural pests. They have a long, needle-like mouthpart called a rostrum that they use...
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