Today I’m over at Bedtime Math showing you how to make sponge balls, a fun, easy and green alternative to water balloons!
I also recently shared how to turn a summer hot dog meal into something crazier, but still simple.
In other news, although I don’t plan to coach entomology again next year, the award-winning girls on my team have a year-round interest in insects, so I try to stay attuned to that. When I find, say, a dead moth on my porch, I put it in a plastic baggy to hand to them for further study.
Have you observed moth wings under a microscope?
This morning I found a cicada killer wasp while out walking Tesla. Despite the scary-sounding name and even scarier looks–2 inches long with yellow “warning” stripes!– they are only a danger to cicadas. The wasp was barely alive, so I used the otherwise empty poop bag to scoop it up and bring it home.
Then, emboldened by this great photo capture, I dared to photograph it.
In my kitchen.
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| It was over an inch long not counting the antennae. |
I didn’t get quite the clarity I wanted because as I was zooming in on it, I saw its abdomen heaving. What do you know? It was still alive.
In my kitchen.
Happy Monday, everybody!
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An Almost Unschooling Mom says
July 15, 2014 at 2:41 amI draw the line at ladybugs in my kitchen – they’re scary enough under a microscope!