Extensions Go outside and look for examples of insects that are distasteful to predators i.e., milkweed bugs, monarch butterflies, honey bees. Activity: Cut 1" x 1" squares from many colors of paper The teacher draws an "X" or an "O" on the back of each paper. (Be sure that the brightly colored ones have more X's than O's.) Spread on floor Give each student ten seconds to pick up the squares one at a time. They should collect as many as he or she can. Words with Special Meanings (for understanding only, not to be tested) Advertise: to show or promote something for sale. Hypothesis (hypotheses, plural): a tentative explanation for a question that can be tested using experimentation. Impostor: one who deceives others by pretending to be something or someone else. Mimic: to copy or to imitate. Observe: to look at and pay special attention to what something does, what it looks like, and how it changes. Predator: an animal that eats other animals. Predict: to guess what you believe will happen. Prey: an animal hunted or killed by another animal for food. Reliable: trustworthy, capable of being trusted or relied on, dependable. Species: a single kind of plant or animal. Unreliable: not trustworthy, not capable of being trusted nor relied on. Bibliography Bailey, Jill. The Life Cycle of a Ladybug. New York: Bookwright Press, 1989 Berends, Polly B. Ladybug and Dog and The Night Walk. New York: Random House, 1980 Braithwaite, Althea. Ladybugs (Life Cycle Books). Dearborn Finan, 1989 Brown, Ruth. Ladybug, Ladybug. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1988 Carle, Eric. The Grouchy Ladybug. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1986 Carey, Valerie Scho. Quail Song. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. Conklin, Gladys. Lucky Ladybugs. New York: Holiday House, 1969 Cutting, Brian and Jullian Cutting. Are You a Ladybug? Wright Group, 1988 Fisher, Aileen. We Went Looking. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1968 Hawes, Judy. Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home. New York: Thomas Crowell and Co., 1967 Hoban, Russell. A Bargain for Frances. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. Jeunesse, Gallimard and P. de Bourgoing. The Ladybug and Other Insects, A First Discovery Book. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1989. Grades K-3 Johnson, Sylvia. Ladybugs. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 1983 Jones, Renata. The Little White Ladybug. Windswept House, 1990 Kraus, Robert. Ladybug, Ladybug! New York: Harper and Row, 1957 Mayer, Mercer. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrated by the author. New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1987. Morgan, Susan B. Ladybug. Dinnerman Books, 1989 Oda, Hidetomo and Kathy Pohl, ed. Ladybug (Nature Close-ups). Milwaukee, WI: Raintree Publishers, 1986 Schlein, Miriam. Fast is Not a Ladybug. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1953 Silverman, Maida. Ladybug's Color Book. New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 1986 Sueyoshi, Akiko. Ladybird On a Bicycle. New York: Faber and Faber, 1983 Wang, Herbert H. and Matthew Vessel. My Ladybug. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969 Watts, Barrie. Keeping Minibeasts: Ladybug. Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1987 Watts, Barrie. Ladybugs, Keeping Minibeasts. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1990 Wickstrom, Lois. Ladybugs for Loretta. Sproing, 1978 Williams, Jay. Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like. New York: Four Winds Press, 1976.

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