Beautiful Beetle
Green beetle, sheen beetle
six-spotted tiger beetle
soaking up sun on a stone
Green beetle, sheen beetle
six-spotted tiger beetle
seeing me near so you’ve flown
Not top quality verse, just for fun.
The Facts
I found this cool insect by one of my flower gardens. Such an amazing dazzling emerald shade! I wanted to know more about this creature. It really is called a six-spotted tiger beetle.
Here are some good links for tiger beetle info in case you want to know more too:
Types of tiger beetles in Ontario
http://www.uoguelph.ca/debu/tiger-beetles.htm
Comprehensive US site on Tiger Beetles
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/tigb/index.htm
Scientific info on ground beetles of Canada
http://www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/carabids/phps/index_e.php
And if you’re interested in poetry, for a much better poetry experience check out the Poetry Friday links from the Kidlitosphere.
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The Turtle and the Toonie
This evening my daughter came running into the house all excited because she’d found a turtle on the driveway. I ran out to see. She’d found this baby turtle.
But it’s hard to tell this is a baby turtle from the photo. So we figured we’d try including her shoes in the picture. Here they are, size 4 Crocs in all their well worn glory, and a baby turtle:
But even that’s not the greatest reference. So we thought we’d add in her hands. Here is the baby turtle with an 8-year-old’s hands for reference:
That’s pretty good. But we wondered if we could make another size comparison. And we think we came up with a brilliant idea. If you’re Canadian. Because here is the baby turtle beside our two dollar coin, or Twoonie:
Definitely a teeny tiny turtle when seen with a toonie. Cute or what??
After we were done taking its picture we let it continue on doing its turtle thing. We hope it grows up to be a big turtle.
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When Turkeys Play Chicken
So you can be driving your mom-mobile, coming home from the grocery store. Your mind can be wandering and you’re enjoying singing along to the radio because you have some time to yourself. Not much is going on in this mundane moment.
Then something catches your eye and you can’t quite believe it but a turkey has jumped out of the bush on the left side of the road and is now strutting towards your lane. Now running. You calculate that–OMG–your trajectories will definitely meet. You inch over to the right hoping turkey will slow. You inch over more. No, it’s not going to work. The geometry and physics are undeniable.
Are you going to slam on the brakes and probably hit the bird anyway? Are you going to drive off the road and risk sliding into the rocks or trees?
You are seriously wishing for your mundane boring drive back again when some turkey- brained thought or instinct tells it to turn around. It races for the ditch on the side of the road from which it emerged.
Phew!
For both of you.
It can happen….
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Today’s Office Window View
Snow mixed with freezing rain. All school buses cancelled. Today you have to feel sorry for the robins.
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