Minibeasts'

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Minibeasts.
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Butterflies.
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Butterflies.

• Butterflies and Moths are the third-largest
  insect group.
• Butterflies have a very interesting life-cycle.
• They originate from being a Caterpillar to a
  beautiful Butterfly.

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The Earthworm

• The Earthworm has a head and a tail end, but most
  of its body is made up of segments which are
  very similar to each other.
• The colour of Earthworms is usually a pale red to
  a dull pink.They live in Dark damp places. They
  cannot live in dry soil or sand.They have 5
  hearts. And their main predator is the bird

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LadyBird

• The Adult Ladybird eats aphids or scaled insects.
• Ladybirds that most of us find are red and black.
  The Ladybird is less than 1.2 cm (1/2 inch)

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Snails

• Snails are a very important animal/minibeast/
  molluscs of the food web.
• They carry their home on their back. They have 1
  foot and have antennae and feelers.

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Woodlouse.

• The Woodlouse is found in the garden, under
  stones or in other damp dark places.
• They feed on decaying animals or vegetables. They
  have seven legs and when they are disturbed they
  roll themselves into a ball.

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Dragonfly

• Approximately 4870 species of Dragonfly are
  known, and are found in most temperate regions of
  the world.Temperate zone species have a wingspans
  of 5-8 cm long, but tropical species have a
  wingspan of 20cm. The largest Dragonfly, that
  lived 250 million years ago had a wingspan of 60
  cm.

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• Caterpillar is the name given to the larva (grub)
  of a Butterfly or Moth. It must spend all this
  stage of its life feeding and growing. Most
  Caterpillars feed on leaves. Usually they will
  only eat one sort of leaf. As Caterpillars have
  very Caterpillars eyes are very small they are
  not aware of very much ! Caterpillars have very
  many enemies such as Birds which theyre tasty.

Caterpillars.
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The Fly.

• There is 90,000 species of Fly. They have 1 pair
  of transparent wings. Flys larva are legless
  grubs or maggots.
• The different species of Fly is houseflies, gnats
  and midges, craneflies, horseflies, fruitflies,
  bluebottles and Dungflies.The main feature of a
  true flys is that they only have 1 pair of
  wings.

The Fly
The Fly.
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Spiders.

• All Spiders spin silk threads. Many of them use
  the threads to make a web to catch its prey.
  (Insects.) There are about 30, 000 types of
  Spiders. Small Spiders lay about 1-10 eggs while
  other Big Spiders lay 2000 or more. When a Spider
  catches something it stuns or kills it with a
  poisonous bite.

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The Slug.

• The Slug is related to the Snail but the Slug has
  not got a shell and the Snail has.The Slug eats
  vegetation and lives in damp places.Some spend
  most of their lives underground, while others
  climb trees in search of food. The Great grey
  Slug (picture) can grow to 10 cms long. The Slug
  has enemies, the Bird!

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The Bee.

• Honey-bees, and their close relatives, the
  Bumble- bees, like ants and termites, live in
  family groups. Bees and wasps are actually
  different Bees have a fluffy fur and wasps have a
  scaly skin. Bees also are bigger than wasps. They
  are like us though because they both have a
  Queen.

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Gallery !
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information about them !
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Pictures and Words.

• Picture1 A Honey-Bee collecting Nectar from a
  Flower.
• Picture2 A Tarantula !!!!!
• Picture3 Garden Spiders hatching from their
  eggs. Many of them may not survive.
• Picture4 A Great Grey Slug at about 6 cm long!
• Picture5 A Caterpillar hatching from its
  cocoon.
• Picture6. A Dragonfly with a wing span of 6-8 cm
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• Picture7A Wiggly slimy Earthworm !
• Picture8 A Snail with its house.
• Picture9 A Armoured Woodlouse.
• Picture10 Butterflies and Moths. (Pretty !)
• Picture11 A Ladybird !

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