Did you know worms help us to grow food? Believe this or not, but they eat their way through the dirt and leave behind rich soil that plants love, and need to grow strong.
Did you know Bees are necessary too? And this is not because they make us great honey! But bees travel from flower to flower to gather pollen to make that honey, and they spread pollen to other plants as well to help them grow. Without them the plants could not make the seeds need for more of them to grow.
Without spiders, we would be overrun with bugs, since they eat them.
Without these bugs our plants would not stay alive and we need the plants to stay alive too!
Here is something cool to do outside:
Get a piece of paper to take notes.
Get an apple and enjoy eating it, but do not toss out the core. Instead take the apple outside away from the house, and find a clear area in your yard to put it. Remember you want to be able to see what will happen next.
You might even want to make a little flag with a popcycle stick, and put it in the ground next to your apple with the words "science project". This way no one will pick it up and toss it out on you.
Then each day go outside and check on your apple and make your notes. And share your findings with us.
So what can you do to help out bugs?
1. When your outside walking on the sidewalk and you see them, try not to step on them. You might even want to help them across - by picking up a leaf and letting them climb onto it. Then take them to a safe place back in the grass. I like to help caterpillars this way. You have just saved a life!
2. If you find a lost bug in your house, help it out and take it back outside, or ask an adult to help you.
3. Adopt a spider. It is so amazing to find a web outside that a spider has made. It might be gross to see, but watch what happens when a bug gets trapped. This is the real cycle of life your watching and better then seeing it on TV.
There is a whole world of interesting bugs on this Earth to see, watch, and learn from.