Hop, Hop, Hop

The Bug of the Day is the treehopper. The common green and brown treehoppers are small, winged, sucking insects of curious and peculiar shapes. They live on many plants, feeding on the sap. Because of their protective color and form, they are usually only noticed when moving. Nearly 200 species are known in this country, many with bizarre shapes. Eggs are laid in stems and buds, sometimes causing minor damage. Eggs hatch the following spring. Young are similar to adults.

Lice

The Bug of the Day is lice. Lice are minute, wingless insects that live and breed on their hosts. All are parasites; some carry disease. Biting lice (bird lice), a distinct group, feed on hair, feathers, and fragments of skin. The sucking lice take the hosts' blood directly, by means of sucking mouth-parts. The hog lice (¼ in.) are the largest of this group. The head louse infects humans and is known to carry typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever. Six to 12 generations of lice may mature annually. Young, similar to adults, develop rapidly. Phew.

Those aren't ants!

Bug of the Day is the termite. Though sometimes called white ants, termites are not ants, and some are not white. Of some 2,000 species, only about 40 are found in this country. Many more are tropical. These highly socialized insects live in colonies composed of four distinct castes. The king and the queen, and the winged termites which can become kings and queens of new colonies, form the first caste. The enlarged and almost helpless queen produces thousands upon thousands of eggs. Most of these hatch into whitish, blind workers who make up the second caste. Soldiers with large heads and jaws, and nymphs which take over the task of reproduction should the king or queen die, make up the last two castes.With the aid of protozoa living in their digestive tracts, termites feed on wood and do some $40,000,000 worth of damage annually to buildings in this country. The young pass through six stages in two years as they develop into adults. Tropical termites build huge nests or mounds, often higher than a man.

There's my description. I went to Casey's party yesterday, and Aaron went to Caesar's. It was a big pool party. I swam around in a hot tub stabbing people with a foam sword. We had a pillow fight. Also I half played Evan's i Pad. There were these plants that give off money and attacked zombies and I picked up the money.

Your Ear Doesn't Have A Wig!?!

Bug of the Day is an earwig. Earwigs are marked by short, leathery forewings and a pincer-like abdominal appendage which is more pronounced in males. From their abdominal glands earwigs exude a liquid with a tar-like odor. They are nocturnal, spending the day in crevices or damp places The legend of their creeping into ears of sleeping persons is untrue. Some kinds are carnivorous, feeding on other insects. Young nymphs are wingless and gradually develop adult form.

There is my description. DON'T use these insects for wigs for your ears. They bite!

Don't use ANYTHING that's green!!!!

OK, OK, don't use anything that's green. Don't even wear something green because there's a swarm of locusts coming in. "Bz-z-z-z-z!" Hear that? Eek! I'm naked! They ate my green shirt! OK, I need to take a break to put on another shirt.

That's better. They devour everything that's green. I can't believe it! They even chewed up the cover of my notebook and that was made out of cardboard! Does anybody have any idea how bugs eat cardboard? If so, put it in the comment section.

snore...zzzzzzzz

Wh-where am I? Oh, yeah, I'm on my bug planet. We were talking about pillows, right? No, no, we're talking 'bout grasshoppers. Anyway, grasshoppers are big. One's about 2 and a half inches long. They hop on grass. Gasum and Jordan from my classroom like to kill grasshoppers. Once Luca found a grasshopper and I released it on an aloe vera leaf. Gasum and Jordan urged me to toss it in the air. And then Jordan gave the leaf a flick. I was horrified and turned on Jordan until he spoke calmly to me: "It's still on there." I looked closely and saw the grasshopper, hanging onto the bottom of the leaf with four legs. Two were dangling off.  

Pray, not play!

The Bug of the Day is the Playing Mantis. Oops, the praying mantis. All mantises, actually. There are lots of mantises not just the praying mantis. I'm feeling sleepy and hungry today so I'm not gonna write much. "yawn" Mantises live everywhere. They're big, ranging two and a half to three and a half inches long. Of course, small to us, but big to insects. Me and my dad went out for a centipede check last night and we caught two...."snore" "snore" What? What's that? Oh, yeah, we were talking 'bout mantises. I just wanna nod off....

Pesty, pesty, pesty!

Bug (pant) of (pant) the (pant) Day (pant) is (pant) American Cockroach! The American Cockroach is known by practically everyone. Once, I was taking a bath and I noticed something brown in the water. I knew I didn't have any brown bath toys so I looked up close and it was a cockroach! I totally freaked out and shouted for Dad to come in and get it back in its home: "Dad! Dad! There's a cockroach in my bath!" So he came in while the cockroach tried to climb into one of my boats. Dad picked up the boat and tried to shake the cockroach off into the toilet but the pesky thing clung to the side. I told Dad not to sacrifice the boat as he gave one last blow. He slammed the boat against the seat of the toilet and the roach went flying into the water after he flushed it. :)

P.S. I'm SO tired today. Bye-bye.