About the Author(s)
Hi!! Im Lexi and I have this page on beetles. I dont know why, but i have taken a sudden interest in then. They now look cool instead of gross. I have two dogs, one at my moms and one at my dads because my parents are divorced and I have dog at each house. At my dads I have a bull dog named Deisel and the one at my moms is mutt named Penny. A little while ago she had nine puppies. Deisel is my favorite dog because he's smart and loves to be around me. I also love cats and have 2, Gizmo and Coco. The only sport I play is chess. My favorite food is chocolate and chocolate and chocolate.
this avatar above looks more like me except Im shorter and less adult looking
here r some pics i like and u mite like 2, they made me laugh first time i saw them
Project Name
BEETLES!!
A giraffe stag beetle
Objectives
I want to learn about different types of beetles and how and where they live. They're fascinating little critters,
dont you think?
ImageChef.com Poetry Blender
Links -
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Heres a site that talk about beetles, but not about any specific beetles
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This site talks about different beetle in AZ with pictures to. Plus a long list of beetles.
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This has a long list of beetles in North America including pictures
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A page on waynesworld dedicated to beetles. It has pistures and alot of info.
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Its not really info on beetles, its a beetle GAME. You have to race your beetle to its hole
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See the full PicLit at PicLits.com
The faster you answer the question the more points you get
DIFFERENT BEETLE PICTURES AND INFO
More to come later so keep checking
There are more than 800,000 species of insects on earth, more than all the other plants and animals combined. Of this great number of insects, nearly half are beetles. Unlike other insects, beetles have a pair of leathery protective wings called elytra that cover their membranous flight wings. During flight, the elytra are spread apart and the two flight wings are unfolded and extended. Beetles come in a variety of shapes and colors, from red "ladybugs" and metallic green fig beetles to lightning beetles that glow in the dark and huge horned beetles resembling a miniature rhinoceros. Colorful beetles are used for jewelry and pins, and shiny tropical scarab beetles are strung together to make unusual necklaces. Beetles range in size from less than a millimeter to giants over six inches long.
P.S. This paragraph was from http://waynesworld.palomar.edu/ww0502.htm
This is a Japanese beetle
Japanese beetles are native to east Asia but they were accidentally introduced into the United States in 1916.
Japanese beetles can live anywhere there is foliage to feed on. They often live on farms, cities, and even your garden. They feed on a variety of trees, shrubs, grasses, and nursery plants. The adults feed on the flowers, fruit, and leaves of plants like grapes, peach, rose, cherry, soybea, hibiscus, Indian mallow, dahlia, zinnia, horsechestnut, willow, elder.Japanese beetles travel and feed in groups. A swarm of beetles have been known to strip a peach tree in 15 minutes, leaving behind only bare branches and the fruit pits.Japanese beetles have a hard exoskeleton and chewing mouthparts. The adult beetle is 10-12 mm long with a metallic body thats usually green or copper and bronze wing covers. These hardened wing covers are actually modified wings called elyptra. WOW!!
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2504.html This site tells about Japanese beetles.
This is a Dung Beetle , cool huh?
Dung beetles are between ½ and 1 inch long and are metallic blue-green and copper. The front of the head is flattened and golden bronze. The male has a long, curved horn extending from the front of the head, called a clypeus, while the female is slightly and has a tubercle. Their front legs are used for digging. They have their name because they eat horse poop and of course lots of dung.
THE FIGHT FOR THE POOP!!!
LADY BUGS!!! Yes, they are in fact beetles
The ladybug lives in a wide variety of habitats. Any place where there are plants and aphids may attract this species. Ladybugs are most commonly found from the beginning of spring until the cool sets in fall. When it starts to become cool outside, ladybugs look for sheltered places so they can hibernate. I didnt know they could until now. The lady beetle is carnivorous. Both the adult and larval stages feed on insects harmful to plants, such as aphids. Adults can be known to eat up to 100. Rather than using any complicated methods for eating its prey, the ladybug kills its prey outright and then devours it. (And I always used to think they were nice and cute)
A lady bug video of a nine spotted ladybug
A Pink Spotted Lady Beetle
I looked these up because I like the color. Pink Lady Beetles can be from from pink to light red in color, and they have twelve black spots on their elytra, those are wing covers, and pronotum, thats the middle part behind the head. Since two of these black spots are the elytra, when a pink lady beetle opens its wings, it looks like it has fourteen spots ,six on each wing cover.
Pink lady beetles are actually ladybugs just like the more familiar red and black-spotted species and even have the rounded shape of a ladybug. The bright colors of Pink Lady Beetles and other ladybugs are a form of aposematic coloration that meant to warn predators that they taste nasty and can be toxic to little animals. Birds and animals will normally avoid insects with black and bright orange, red, pink, or yellow on them.
This is a Spotted Cucumber Beetle
The spotted cucumber beetle is yellow-green with twelve black spots, a black thorax, and yellow abdomen. The grown up beetles are about half a centimeter long. When its an adult it eats crops like cucumbers, soybeans, cotton, beans and many others. When its a larvae, which is called the southern corn rootworm, it tunnels through the roots of little plants, killing them. I think it looks kinda cute, like lady bugs.
This is a Red Milkweed Beetle
Milkweed beetles feed on milkweed plants. The larvae feed on the roots and stems, the adults on the leaves. you look closely at a milkweed beetle you will see that it has one pair of eyes above the antennae and another pair below. They have black spots on upper thorax and different patterns of black dots and streaks on red fore wings and a long tubular body. Milkweed beetles are found wherever there is milkweed.
Here's a Six-Spotted Green Tiger Beetle
They are a green beetle with long, thin legs and long antennae. Fore wings sometimes have six or more large white spots along the rear edge. They live on paths and sunny areas in forests.They are about 18mm long. It eats a variety of different insects.
Soldier Beetle
Comments (4)
lexi said
at 5:03 pm on Nov 13, 2009
Please leave comments on beetles you think I should look up
Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. said
at 10:31 am on Nov 14, 2009
Lexi - this is amazing - It is one of the best projects yet! I love it.
lexi said
at 8:10 pm on Nov 15, 2009
Thank you! I like my project to,its fun to learn about these amazing insects, some of this stuff I didnt even know until now
Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. said
at 5:53 am on Nov 20, 2009
You have so many facts, great pictures, and fun visuals, Lexi - I am proud of you!
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