Insects

The Interesting Monarch Butterflies

Monarch is the first in your mind when you hear the word butterfly. When I was little, that was what my teacher talked more. It seemed at that moment that this is the only butterfly in the world, and the rest was nothing. Orange wings with black lines and colored white spots are interesting. While the male is bright orange, brown-orange colored woman. Venous lines are blurred black women than men.

I remember my parents to take us five children in a park for a picnic or to camp, and always have at hand a butterfly net. I often used when a bug flew from which we wanted to take a closer look. Once I built a fence with a mosquito net and bamboo fishing rods, so all weekend. My children had a small network version, and a container of what was done to keep the error and had hours of fun with it.

I visited a butterfly garden, which was conducted commercially and it was nice living space and land on me and I cover gets so close to my head. I’ve always wanted to create a butterfly garden in my yard for the sake of my family.

For those of you who like big words, is the scientific name of these beautiful butterflies, Danaus plexippus. Monarch butterflies live in southern Canada, all the continental United States, Central America and South America. They are also found in Australia, Hawaii and some Pacific islands.
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Bees: Incredible Creatures That Have Amazing Brain Power

When we begin to study the insects, bees know the facts leaves us speechless.There are about 20,000 species of bees, which are seven species of bees. Bees are insects that the only food consumed by man to make the world not covered other creatures, and a positive contribution to agriculture, to the point that the world does not have enough food, if it were not for them

Bees are incredible creatures that the remarkable ability of the brain, your brain only the size of a sesame seed. It can calculate distances and direction, can provide clues for a successful harvest field. Without any official organization, forming colonies cultured and well-organized, with each bee does its work selflessly.

It is interesting to note that a bee will have about 1,600 trips to the fields of flowers to one ounce (28 grams.) Honey it. Each round up to 5 miles (8 km), which amounts to between 50 and 1000 or more flowers per bee all day.

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