YOUR ZANY Bug ABCs

Y is for YELLOW JACKET, the common name in North America for wasps. Unlike a bee, which can only sting once, wasps can sting many times. Yellowjackets are social insects living in colonies containing workers, queens and males. Wasps eat other insects which harm fruit and vegetable plants, but they can be aggressive to people and pets. [...]

Fly Tales

 Fly Tales is a fun cartoon series featuring short adventures of a ball-shaped fly. The Fly would come into sticky situations but always somehow manage to escape.
Fly and the Baby
 
Want to watch more?  Here are 3 more: 
The Bumblebee      Cuckoo Clock     The Museum
Go to YouTube and search “fly tales” (with quotation marks) if you [...]

Where in the world is the reading bug (no.4)?

Here is our winner
Phillip:
The reading bug is on the kid’s place page on aclibrary.org. (He must be ready to search great children books on bugs in the kid’s catalog)
Answer for Reading Bug Search No. 3:

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How about now?

Need some hint? Click at the first *, hold and slide to the right to the second * [...]

STU-pendous Bug Tricks

S is for SPIDER. Spiders are bugs, but not insects! A spider is an araneae, an order of arachnid. There are many thousand different kinds of spiders. All spiders have eight legs. Most spiders have eight eyes but some have fewer than eight. They don’t have ears, they feel the sound vibrations with tiny hairs [...]

MAN, I Can’t Wait to See What Comes Next in the Buggy ABCs!

M is for MILLIPEDE, a BUG that isn’t an INSECT! It is an ARTHROPOD, a “jointed-limbed” invertebrate – meaning it has no backbone like mammals – with a segmented body, and each segment has four legs. http://www.backyardnature.net/1000legs.htm
 
N is for NO-SEE-UMS. No-see-ums are tiny biting flies that live near water.  You often see many of them [...]

Say What You See–Bugs

Hey kids, if you have a little brother or sister, show them this one.  Tell me if they (you) like it! 

Want to watch more of this series?  Here are two more:
Say what you see–Animals      Say what you see–Transport

Where in the world is the reading bug (no.3)?

Answer for last reading bug search:
All the answers were great!  This one was a random pick to conclude search no.2:
“The reading bug is on the cover on the book “Perfect Pet”. It is written by Margie Palatini and illustrted by Bruce Whatley. He must love reading all the great books in the library!!!” – (submitted by [...]

Gee, What Comes Next in the Buggy Alphabet?

G is for GRASSHOPPER. Although grasshoppers have large jumping legs, they also have wings, and most species can fly very well.  In fact, most grasshoppers just use their legs as a “booster” to get them off of the ground; after that, they can use their wings to fly. http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/insects/grasshoppers/grasshoppers.htm
H is for HARLEQUIN BUG. This is [...]

Is it always greener in the other yard?

The Greener Yard, first shown in 1949, is a cartoon short starring Donald Duck and an elderly beetle, who looks an awful lot like Jiminy Cricket. Donald’s yard is full of good things to eat, but beetles had better look out!

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 [...]