Let’s Meet the Bugs 2

Monarch Caterpillar
 
When I am fully grown, I will become a Monarch Butterfly! I love to travel, sometimes hundreds of miles from my home in Bugville to my winter home in California, near Santa Cruz. I always pack lots of good books for my trip.

How many bugs are on the game board?

Thank you all for your responses!  The correct answer is… 112 bugs! 
Eight people submitted the correct answer: natpenn, Akheel, miles, ivanche, Phillip, Karuna, stanley, and Courtney.  dinika was very close but changed her answer at the last minute.
The first three with the correct answers are our winners and they are:
natpenn, Akheel, and miles.  Congratuations!  You’ll receive an email shortly.  It will tell [...]

Friday Funnies!

Have you been bit by the reading bug?  Here is some joke & riddle relief.

Why do bees hum?                                                                     What goes z-z-u-b, z-z-u-b?
  Because they can’t remember the words.                                      A bee flying backwards.
                  What am I?
                            A city of thousands, yet no word is spoken.
                            There are great stories of gold, but no money.
                                Some live imprisoned in cells, yet [...]

DEF of the Insect World

Insecta. Insects form the largest single group in the animal Kingdom and can be defined as creatures whose bodies have three sections: head, thorax and abdomen, the central one (thorax) bearing three pairs of legs and, in most cases, two pairs of wings. One of the Orders within Insecta is Odonata – and these are [...]

Share your favorite summer reads with us!

We want to find out what you are reading this summer. There are several ways to share with us. You can write the titles on the back of your Catch the Reading Bug game board. You can post a comment here telling us the title and why you liked it. Or [...]

Mickey’s Garden

Mickey’s Garden

Let’s Meet the Bugs!

 
Lorraine Ladybug
Hi, I’m Lorraine, a 7-spot ladybug. When I am not working in the BugVille Public Library, I enjoy gardening. My friends tell me I have a big appetite. I can eat about 50 aphids everyday—that’s about 5000 during my life time.

Where in the world is the reading bug (no.2)?

Answer for last reading bug search:
Wow! Everyone was correct!
The best answer was from Katilyn (commenter #5)–
“The Reading Bug, smart fellow that he is, is on an Alameda County Library card, ready to check out all those great books!”  (Thanks Katilyn, for the great answer !!!)

Take me back to the previous reading bug search.
……………………………………………………..
Do you know where it is now?

Need [...]

Friday Funnies!

Is the Summer Reading Game driving you buggy?
 
Relax, sit back and enjoy a giggle or two with these jokes & riddles:
“A-T“
I start with and A and end with a T.
My family lives in a big colony.
We are ruled be a queen, who is not often seen.
She lays eggs continuously.
Can you name me?
Answer: ANT
   
Which sports do [...]

The Midnight Writer…

Have you ever wondered what happens in the library after it closes? If you read Daniel Kirk’s Library Mouse, you’ll meet Sam, the small mouse who lives in the wall behind the children’s reference books.
                                       
By day, the children’s room is bright and cheery, and dark and quiet by night. That’s when Sam roams [...]