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Science Sunday: Insect field trip
Also known as, something that probably shouldn’t have been done at the beginning of November, but what the heck, that’s when we finished our study of insects.
Now, I have a very distinct memory of going to the Zilker Botanical Gardens this spring and seeing an amazingly large numbers of insects. I noted this and intended to go back and look for more when we were actually studying insects.
Fast forward a few month and I spent a good month and a half playing tag with my friend who I wanted to go with for this excursion, and didn’t really move as fast as I 
should have. So, we finally set out in November, yes I meant to write about this earlier, but was feeling lazy and November was crazy.
Our main discovery while we were there was monarch butterflies, which I was perfectly happy with because I love them.
So, our first part having been a dismal failure we continued on to our next part of the field trip.
This was much more successful. We successfully had a wonderful nature walk where the kids discovered all sorts of stuff, and many different things.
We checked out the natural wildlife in captivity. Don’t you just love Batman in his hat? That really cracks me up.
But as always the dinosaur dig was a huge hit, and the kids LOVED it! And of course were absolutely filthy by the time we got home, so baths were necessary.
The cool new part for me was the discovery that the Austin Science and Nature Center has a whole new exhibit about weather and air pressure and stuff. Most of it went over the kids heads, but they enjoyed looking at it.
And, the kids have discovered the trade in center where you can bring in cool things you find like plants or rocks and stuff and have the people help you identify it and earn points. Those points can then be used to trade in for “cool stuff,” read animal skeletons and dead bugs. I’m okay with the skeletons, not so much on the dead bugs.
Oh well.
And that finally concludes all of our insect studies, all 4 months or so of it……..
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8 responses to “Science Sunday: Insect field trip”
Sounds neat! I love that Princess could wear short sleeves outside in November – that must be nice. We are all bundled up in layers of clothing here; it has been in the 20s all week. Your pics are November though, so it would have been in the 30s, maybe 40s here at that time. Certainly not short sleeve weather in MA!
Every year we go to our Monarch Butterfly preserve in February hoping to observer Monarch butterflies, and every year we barely see any. Apparently, they don't come here in masses as they used to – so sad. Your Science and Nature center sounds very interesting!
By November around here, all the insects to be found, are the type spinning webs in the corners of the ceiling – I'd take Monarch butterflies over that any day 🙂
I'm waiting for my son to start “liking” bugs. Right now he hates the sight of them, even ladybugs. We're completely snow covered here, too, so we won't be finding any bugs outside. However, there are still some hardy ones trying to survive in our basement.
They looked like they had so much fun!
NIce field trip. I really like the dinosaur dig, looks interesting. The last picture of Batman is so cute he seriously looks like a true blue naturalist. Thank you for sharing.
Sounds like a great field trip! I really like the trade in deal, although I'm not sure how crazy I'd be about the dead bugs either, but it sounds like they definitely know how kids operate! 🙂
I was thinking the same thing as Leah! Her Comment pretty much covers what I was going to say. Looks like everyone had fun!
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