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Bugs - Insects for Kids
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Crafts, activities, drawings to color, facts and information about bugs and insects for kids. Collect and raise bugs in your homeschool carefully! Experiment with insects which won't harm you nor get loose and harm your house. Observe, but don't kill bugs which are good for the environment.

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About Bugs ~ Insect Facts for Children

Alien Empire
This special multimedia Web companion to the three-week NATURE miniseries takes you into the bizarre, fascinating world of insects, with amazing graphics, sound and animation, enhanced video, and activities for kids.

Bug Bios
This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these alien creatures.

Cool Bug Stuff
Cool bug facts, games, and recipes. Did you know that bugs can be used to make medicine?

Florida 4-H Bug Club
Here you will find information that will show you the best places to look for insects and that will help you identify the ones you have already collected.

Insects
Come learn why not all bugs are bad. In fact, many help by destroying destructive bugs and plants.

Insects: What good are they anyways?
If you have ever been stung by a bee, stabbed by a mosquito or had the leaves of your favorite tree eaten by a gypsy moth caterpillar, you've probably wondered...what good are insects? Although it is true that insects can cause damage, they can also be beneficial.

Teachers' Pests
Simple educational projects for all ages from Terminex. Choose activities by age group:Egg (Ages 4-6), Larva (Ages 7-9), or Pupa (Ages 10-12).

'Wicked Bugs' An Encyclopedia Of Insect Villains
Amy Stewart, who brought us a disturbing slender volume called Wicked Plants has a new and perhaps even more disturbing book called Wicked Bugs. Guest host Linda Wertheimer talks with Stewart about her A-Z list of the most loathsome insects and the havoc they cause.

World's Most Notorious Bugs
The FBIA (Federal Bug Intelligence Agency) seeks your help in locating a gang of notorious creepy crawlies! Please study these wanted posters and notify the FBIA if you know the whereabouts of any of these characters. Site has loads of fascinating microscopic photographs of bugs.

Wonderful World of Insects
There are well over 1 million different known species of insects in the world, and some experts estimate that there might be as many as 10 million. They are divided up into 32 orders. Did you know that one in every four animals on this planet is a beetle?

Bug Arts and Crafts and other Insect Activities for Kids

Bug Box
A pest control company has several activities you can print out and do. If you live in Virginia, you can visit the Insect Zoo these folks sponsor, or have them visit your support group. Discount coupon.

Bug Fun
Collecting bugs, insect crafts and projects, games and jokes, even bugs as food, from the University of Kentucky Department of Entomology. Make Your Own Compound Eye, for example.

Cookie the Cop
Cook's Pest Control in Alabama offers a free 16-page insect coloring and puzzle insect worksheets for kids.

Insect Printouts
Printout, label and color these worksheets of outlines of familiar insects: ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, and more. Some show lifecycle.

Insects at Enchanted Learning
Rhymes, crafts, coloring printouts, and quizzes.

Monster Bugs
Insect parts for kids to learn about. Assemble a bug you know or create an entirely new bug out of these drawers full of insect parts.

Collecting

Bug Pets
One of the best ways to learn about animals is to keep and look after them. insects and other invertebrates are no exception. In most cases they are easy to look after (provided you've found out about them first), inexpensive and don't require a vast amount of space.

Rearing Crickets
You can raise crickets simply because you like them or because you want to use them as bait when fishing.

Rearing Insects Indoors
Why rear insects? Because rearing insects is fun. Observing insects indoors can help you gather information on their life cycles and hab its. You can even do scientific experiments with them. If you wish, you can grow insects for fish bait or as food for pet birds, toads, and lizards.

Rearing and Experimenting with Isopods
Have you ever turned over a rock or old board and discovered a small, hard-shelled creature resembling a miniature armadillo, and then upon picking it up had it roll-up into a near-perfect ball in your hand? Such armoured creatures are called wood-lice or sowbugs and those kinds that roll up are often called pillbugs.

Sow Bug/Pill Bugs
Pick up a pill bug or sow bug very gently. Look at it closely. Which do you have? Pill bugs curl up in a ball when frightened. Sow bugs hump up in a bump.

Fun

Bug Birthday Party Ideas
Having bug birthday party is a great choice! Most kids seem to be fascinated by little critters, so why not make that your party theme.

Insect Games for Children

Bug-go
A game to help you learn to identify some insects while learning which insects are beneficial and interesting facts about others. The game should be played similar to the game bingo. You'll need a printer to print out the playing cards.

Just for Fun
Take a break with Terminex interactive games and activities. We're always adding new features, so check back often. Create a bug. Determine what kind of bug personality you are most like. Make a bug mask. Try your hand at a Swarmer Slider Puzzle.

Pest Games
Test your pest knowledge and skills with these learning games! For kids of all ages, and especially for those in third through fifth grade.

Recipes

Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes
Disclaimer: The Department of Entomology at Iowa State University is not responsible for gastric distress, allergic reactions, feelings of repulsion, or other problems resulting from the ingestion of foods represented on these pages.

Katerpillars (& Mystery Bugs)
Fun stuff - such as bug-looking recipes for Halloween treats - as well as information about all sorts if bugs from the University of Kentucky Department of Entomology.

Specific Insects

Mosquitos

I want to suck your blood! - Mosquitos
No, I'm not talking about Count Dracula - I'm talking about my relatives - those annoying mosquitoes, or "skeeters," as they are sometimes called.

Mosquito Biology
This booklet explains the general biology and significance of mosquitoes and tells what the public can do to reduce mosquito problems. Advanced.

Other Insects

British Stick Insect Foundation website
British humor mixed with a few facts, so be on guard! It is a site where discussion and views concerning Phasmidae (Stick Insects) are shared for the benefit of members and public in the UK and worldwide.

Bug Identification
If you've found an insect and you don't know what it is then you can use the on-line Key here to find out to what order your insect belongs. It is a good idea to have the insect in a 'Bug Box' whilst you use the Key - it's much easier than relying on your memory.

Fleas
Let's follow a flea from cradle to grave to learn about her strange, secret flea life-cycle.

Head Lice
Much to many parents' annoyance, the head louse is a tiny, wingless parasitic insect that lives among human hairs and feeds on extremely small amounts of blood drawn from the scalp. Although they may sound gross, lice (the plural of louse) are a very common problem, especially for kids ages 3 years to 12 years (girls more often than boys).

How Bed Bugs are Taking Over the U.S.
Bed Bugs. Everyone has heard of them. A lot of people have dealt with them. Few people know what they are, exactly. That's why we put together this infographic.

Yucky Roach World
Find out about a roach's typical day, its anatomy, and more interesting and gross facts then you'd thought you'd ever want to know.

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