Bumblebees

Bumblebees are amazing!

These incredible creatures are the only insect that makes food for people to eat. Bumble Bees make yummy honey. Honey is used by people on biscuits, in scrumptious cakes and on sandwiches. You can also use honey in lemon drinks and these are good for you when you have a cold.

Bumble bees are very clever because they can smell so that is why they sting. They live in beautiful gardens where their hive is. Bumblebees look like a bug with black and yellow stripes. You normally find them in gardens with flowers. They eat pollen from flowers. They also eat nectar. Their enemies are cats, dogs, and kiwi.

Did you know that Bumblebees arent supposed to fly because their body is bigger than their wings. They do though- really well.

by Vanessa

The Praying Mantis

Did you know there is an awesome insect that prays ?

The Praying Mantis sits on a comfy leaf in the shade and brings their front arms up under the chins.They look like they are praying and that is why they are called a Praying Mantis.

Praying Mantis are a really cool insect.They look lots like a grasshopper and are about the same size.They have heads the shape of a triangle.

The Praying Mantis is an insect that is 25mm to150mm long and has eight long legs.

These insects can live up to about a year and fourteen months.

A Praying Mantis eats yucky and gross spiders and really tiny wasps to gobble it down their throat.

Amazingly, the Praying Mantis can eat something bigger than itself- like small reptiles, birds,small frogs, and lizards!

I found one once in a silver fern bush. The Praying Mantis is a cool insect.

   by  Jason 

The Pukeko

Did you know that the Pukeko can fly? But unlike other  Birds it spends most of its time on the ground.

The Pukeko has red eyes and blue and black feathers. It is about the same size as a small hen but has long red legs. It has a red beak too.

The Pukeko is  found in NZ and lives near cold ponds  and muddy  swamps.

The Pukeko has a lot of enemies like rats, cats, hawks, weasels, and  stoats. 

The Pukeko will fly to get away from enemies.

The Pukeko eats duck eggs, worms and shoots.They can also eat crops from a farmers 

garden and small eels

The Pukeko is cool.It was fun to learn about them and I hope you learned about them too.

by Aydn.