Junior+Insects+in+Close-up

=News for Insect Collectors!=

Samantha's flies close-up:

 * [[image:dino10.jpg width="290" height="397"]] ||< ==__A fly's tongue.__==

Flies have the grossest table manners...

They can only eat liquids. So what do they do when they find solid food? They spit on it! Their spit turns solid stuff into a mushy soup. Then they slurp it up. ||
 * [[image:dino11.jpg width="329" height="251"]] ||< ==__A fly's feet.__==

Flies have hairy micro-hooking, glue-oozing toe-pads to walk upside down on the ceiling.

The toe-pads are white in the photo.

These spongy toe pads are the fly's taste buds.

Flies walk over their food to check out its flavour, and they taste using their antennae. ||
 * [[image:dino5.jpg width="336" height="253"]] || ==__A fly's wing.__==

A house fly beats its wings over 20,000 times a minute!

You can see a cream coloured fold which opens out when the fly spreads its wings ||

=A Letter=

//Dear Wiki-Watchers, I have had a most exciting time! Like you, I have been discovering some very interesting things indeed - especially about a bee's body. For example, I discovered that a bee's back leg has a nifty little notch in it for cleaning its antennae; it's antennae are covered in tiny holes or pores to let smell molecules in; a bee has brushes and combs on its legs for cleaning pollen out of its hairs; and it has tiny hooks to hook its wings together.

SO - I thought I would use the new microscope to explore a bee.//

Empty **pollen sacs (Corbicula)** || Slide in your antenna, bend your leg to close the notch door. Pull your antenna through the notch like a piece of spaghetti. || Looks like a shiny black volcano on the right of the head. || One side of a **horny sheath** A cupboard for the tongue when its not in use. || My most exciting find was the antenna cleaner.
 * //LOOK WHAT I FOUND!//**
 * [[image:dinobees-60.jpg]]
 * Compound eye** - look at those lenses! || [[image:dinobees-52.jpg]]
 * [[image:dinobees-58.jpg]]
 * Leg combs** || [[image:dinobees-59.jpg]]
 * Antenna** with tiny pores for smelling ||
 * [[image:dinobees-48.jpg width="320" height="260"]]
 * Honey bee hair** - soft as thistle-down || [[image:dinobees-66.jpg]]
 * Antenna cleaning notch**
 * [[image:dinobees-64.jpg]]
 * Honey bee's tongue** - all hairy -tipped to soak up nectar. || [[image:dinobees-63.jpg]]
 * A row of wing hooks** called **hamuli** ||
 * [[image:dinobees-61.jpg]]
 * A simple eye** to sense light and dark.
 * [[image:dinobees-53.jpg]]
 * My bee** || What fun I had travelling around my bee!

Send me a note - Just click on __the discussion tab.__**
 * Please let me know what you think.

I am looking for a dead **bumble-bee.** Can you help?

Good hunting,

Mrs Stedman :) ||

== =Have you seen the Dragonfly in the museum?=


 * ==Dragonfly,what HUGE eyes you have!==

dragonfly know if it is night-time or day-time.
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 * ===[[image:dragonfly_wing.jpg width="369" height="226"]]=== || ==Dragonflies have interesting wings...==

and turn in all directions.
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 * [[image:bees.JPG width="213" height="199"]]

|| ==__Guess what.....?__==

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 * [[image:bumblebee.gif]] || ==Listen to //"[|The Flight of the Bumblebee]"//==

by Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsokov
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 * [[image:P1090381.JPG width="363" height="256"]] || ==__More than meets the eye...__==

in the hive.
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Visit the Museum page to see Samantha's Yellow Admiral Butterfly in Close-up
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 * [[image:P1090843-2.JPG width="213" height="175"]] || [[image:butterfly_yellow_admiral-15.jpg width="206" height="158"]] || [[image:butterfly_yellow_admiral-21.jpg width="215" height="155"]] || [[image:butterfly_yellow_admiral-7.jpg width="194" height="159"]] ||

== All-New for Junior Wiki-Watchers... ==
 * [[image:smile.jpg width="154" height="154"]]

**The Library Smile**
|| =__2008 Smile Challenge__=

Smiles can be earned in lots of ways...

 * **by entering Library Competitions**
 * **by reading heaps and heaps**
 * **by joining in Junior Workshops**
 * **by writing stunning stories and poems**


 * Smiles will be given to you by your teacher or Mrs Stedman.**

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 * Draw up a chart for the classroom. Smiles are hidden everywhere!** ||

=__The Hidden World of Mika's Bones__ =

**Old bones are full of secrets.**
Click on the forward button to see what the microscope discovered inside Mika's bone collection.


 * [[image:P1090870.jpg]]

Mika's collection of cattle and sheep bones.
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