Two Book Reflections

Here was a small thing, but it might be a big thing. Grandkids, 9 and 5 years, went into our yard for a Bug Count.

Equipment: pencil, paper and clipboards.

Time: ten minutes

Process: explain that the bees will not bother them if they just look.  Also showed how to count with hash marks.

Result: lots of bumble bees, several kinks of other bees and wasps (?), some beetles on the rudbeckias, cicadas in the trees and at least one butterfly (white).

We didn’t get scientific accuracy, but a small lesson that pollenators in the yard are a good thing.

I don’t post kid pix, so a few star insects will have to do.