1. Butterflies taste with their feet.

2. The largest butterfly in the world is the Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing. It’s wings measure 11 inches from tip to tip.

3. The smallest butterfly has a wing span of only about 1/2 inch.

4. Most adult butterflies live long enough only to mate and lay eggs. some kinds live only a couple days.

5. The largest butterfly in the United States is the Giant Swallowtail with a wingspan of up to 6 inches.

6. A caterpillar can grow to be 27,000 times larger than the egg it hatched from. (If a 7-pound human grew that much, it would weigh 189,000 pounds as an adult!!!).

Garden for Wildlife—ANYWHERE!!

Whether you live in the city, the suburbs or a rural area, you can your family can make a special place for wildlife. All you need to provide is food, water, cover and the wildlife to raise their babies. Your yard may already have some of these things!!

Here are some fun facts on skunks that you may have wanted to know.

* Skunks are a member of the weasel family.

* There are 4 types of skunk in the United States; striped, spotted, hooded and hog-nosed.

* Skunks measure about 20 to 30 inches long and weigh 6 to 10 pounds.

*  Skunks are primarily nocturnal and solitary animals.

* The average litter of young is 5, born late April to early June.

* An individual skunk can have a territory of 30 to 40 acres.

* 70 percent of a skunks diet consists of insects considered harmful to humans.

* Their largest enemies are automobiles and great horned owls.

* The skunk’s main defense is a complex chemical substance that includes sulfuric acid.

* When skunks feel threatened they usually fluff their fur, shake its tail, stomp the ground with its front feet, growl, and stand on its hind legs, and turn its head and spit to scare the potential attacker. If that doesn’t work, it will lift its tail up and spray.

* The glands that hold the spray can produce enough chemical to hold 5 or 6 full-powered sprays.

* Skunks can have rabies. Only if an adult skunks is seen in the daytime and showing abnormal behaviors such as paralysis, unprovoked aggression, moving in circles, self-mutilation and you should call your local animal control.

 

I hope that you have learned some fun facts about skunks. Have a great week guys!!

Here’s a craft that is fun for the kids. Its a cheap and easy and you can learn some phun facts while doing it with your friends and family.

Supplies Needed:

* Paper Plates (1 per person)

* Wax Paper

* Scissors

* Tape or glue (glue works best, but tape will work)

* Black construction paper

* Yellow paint

* Black paint

* White marker

* Paint brush

How to Make:

Start by coloring or painting the plate with black and yellow stripes like a bee. The kids can have as many or as few a stripes as they like. No two bees look the same. (The less paint you use the faster it will dry)

 While the paint is drying the kids can cut out wings from the wax paper.

Once the wings are done, you can have the kids cut out stingers from the construction paper.

Once the paint is dry the kids can glue/tape the wings  and stinger on their bee.

After the wings and stinger have been attached, use the white marker/colored pencil/white out and draw a face on your happy bee.

Phun Facts:

There are more than 25,000 species of bees identified in the world and 3,500 of those are in the United States.

8 of the 1o are hunny bees.

Honey bees are insects with 6 legs, 3 body segements and antennas.

Honey bees feed on pollen and nectar.

Most honey bees have pollen baskets on their legs to carry pollen when they fly

Honey bees are social insects, they do not like to live alone.

There are 4 stages for bees- egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

Bees live in groups called colonies. There is the queen, workers, and drones.

There is only 1 queen per hive.

99% of the population are worker bees.

Only male bees can be drones.

Each colony can have as many as 60,000 bees in it!!!

 

If you make this craft you all should post your pictures on the site so everyone can see your masterpieces.

Did you know ????

Here are some fun and interesting facts about animals throughout the world. See if you knew all these, some may even suprise you!!!

* Some octupus change shape to look like less tempting prey

* A puffer fish can kill a shark!!! The puffer fish inflates to 3 times its normal size  and can sufficate a shark.

* Butterflies taste with their feet.

*Chameleons have independent eyes which means they can see in two different directions at the same time.

* Catfish have 10 times as many taste buds as humans.

* Frogs have an eardrum on the outside of their body behind their eyes.

* The box jellyfish has 24 eyes.

* The male seahorse is the only male that carry babies.

* Scallops have 100 eyes around the edge of their shell.

* Scorpions can have as many as 12 eyes.

*Crickets can hear using their legs!!  Sound waves vibrate a thin membrane on their front legs.

* A worm’s entire body is covered in taste receptors.

So what facts did you know? Which facts did you find interesting? Do you know of any other interesting facts about animals?

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