December 2, 2009 | Patti Romano
If butterflies taste with their feet, then they certainly should never wear shoes! Fascinated, that's what second-grade student, Erik Uebelacker decided after his teacher taught a lesson on butterflies at school. He found the idea very humorous and decided to share it with others by writing a picture book about it...Butterflies Shouldn't Wear Shoes.
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November 10, 2009 | Patti Romano
In 2006, an 11 year-old child and a 10 year-old child found a rare nine-spotted ladybug near their home in Virginia. And it just so happened that they found this ladybug while they were in the company of parents of a Cornell University student who knew about the Lost Ladybug Project. What the children discovered was the first nine-spotted ladybug seen in the eastern United States in 14 years!
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November 10, 2009 | Patti Romano
Earth Science students at First Flight High School in North Carolina, had been sampling nearby ocean waters as part of their science project. Each week the students would examine their samples very carefully under microscopes. What were they looking for? For some very small plants, one-celled plants that live in oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams called phytoplankton.
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May 30, 2009 | Patti Romano
Every summer as a child, I would sit for hours with my dog-eared copy of Butterflies, Skippers, and Moths by Sandersohn and Ayars in my lap and watch butterflies flitter through my yard--yellow sulphurs, monarchs, viceroys... I learned as much as I could about each butterfly that stopped in our garden.
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May 28, 2009 | Patti Romano
"Like a living thermometer, a small owl in Europe is turning a deep shade of red as climate change pushes temperatures ever higher," reports Michael Reilly of Discovery News. This owl, the Scops Owl, appears in two colors: gray and rusty red.
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