Insects

1. Insects Written and Illustrated by Mrs. Love’s 1st Graders April 2005

2. Fire Ant By: Annmarie Franz • It eats insects, fruit juices, and sugar. • It lives in fields, yards, and houses. • This common ant also lives in rotten wood.

3. Ladybug By: Ashley Garcia • It eats aphids. • It lives in gardens, fields, and forests. • By devouring aphids, it protects the host plant.

4. Butter Fly By: Austin Vickery • It eats plants. • It lives in the northeastern states. • Their wings are bright orange with dark spots.

5. Cockroach By: Baylee Molitor • It eats just about everything! • It lives and dark crevices and buildings. • It escapes on foot into cracks in our homes.

6. Stinkbug By: Breeden Jones • It eats juices of leaves, flowers, and fruit trees. • It lives in orchards, gardens, and crop fields. It is destructive to crops.

7. Giant Crane Fly By: Brendan Madziarczyk • It eats blood of warm blooded animals and nectar. • It lives in moist areas. • This is one of the largest flies in the world.

8. Moth By: Connor James • It eats leaves. • It lives in forests. • They begin eating leaves and stripping a whole foreest in one season.

9. Cicada By: Drew Diffendal • It eats sap from trees. • It lives in northeastern United States. • Cicadas burst out of their nymphal skins.

10. Bee By: Hunter Ceto • It eats clover and flowers. • It lives in woods, fields and gardens. • They live in huge organized colonies headed by one queen bee.

11. Termite By: Ibrahim Share • It eats wood and other plant matter. • It lives in soil, wood and moist wood. • They are the most destructive species in North America.

12. Katydid By: Iliana Vargas • It eats leaves. • It lives in leafy forests. • Katydids are not easy to spot against a backdrop of leafy branches.

13. Mosquito By: Jacora Hamaker • It eats nectar and plant juices. • It lives in swamps, ponds, water. • The female sucks blood from birds, reptiles, and people.

14. Beetle By: Jake Swindle • It eats leaves. • It lives in forests and suburbs. • Larvae can take as long as three years to grow.

15. Praying Mantis By: Jason Hargrove • It eats insects. • It lives in brushy fields and gardens. • Has a flexible neck, and swivels it’s head as it looks for prey.

16. Greenstinkbug By: Jhoslin Prince • It eats juices of leaves flowers fruit threes • It lives in orchards gardens. • It can cause much damage to crops.

17. Ant By: Jordan Gyovai • It eats fruit juices and sugar. • It lives in fields, yards, and houses. • They live in rotten wood.

18. Fire fly By: Kenny Daniels • It eats blood. • It lives near streams in forests. • The eggs attach themselves to stones.

19. Dragonfly By: Nick Soucie • It eats gnats, flies, and mosquitoes. • It lives near ponds and streams. • Males of this dragonfly protect their territory.

20. Squash Bug By: Sarah Fergus • It sucks plants juices and sucks blood. • It lives in gardens and squash fields. • The squash bug has a front wing that has two parts.

21. Common Water Strider By: Shannon Hoey • It eats smaller insects. • It lives on surfaces of ponds, lakes, and slow streams. • They walk on top of water.

22. Housefly By: Shannon Carlsen • It eats the blood of animals and nectar. • It lives in houses and farms. • House flies are hard to swat because they react to movement five times faster than regular insets do.

23. Grasshopper By: Tyler Paulson • It eats grass and crops. • It lives in grass and open woods. • The sounds are made by rubbing the hind legs against. The fore wing or by rubbing the wings together.

24. Cricket By: Victoria Mantel • It eats crumbs and food scraps. • It lives in meadows or weeds. • The clear high notes of the cricket’s song can be heard day or night.