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Entomology – bug search Entomology
is the study of insects but it also cover spiders, centipedes, and
small animals.
- Open the 'Te
Papa' museum website and explore the information on the many
different insects that live in New Zealand.
- Have you ever wondered what types of bugs live around your school or home?
- Open this step-by-step bug
search guide (Word 29KB) to help you complete a bug search.
Email your bug search findings to ed@tki.org.nz.
Life cycles
How well do you understand the life cycle of an insect? Did you know that insects usually go through four separate life stages: egg, larva or nymph, pupa, and adult. Most of the growing happens during the larvae or nymph stages.
- Open the
life cycles of insects.
- Read the information carefully, especially the difficult words.
Make sure you understand what nymphs,
larvae, and metamorphosis mean, so use this 'Tui Time' glossary
to help you.
- This website will help to explain the life
cycle of an insect.
- Try
this butterfly activity.
- Now draw your own lifecycle of a butterfly. Use
this monarch butterfly example to give you ideas on how to present
your work. Make it bright, colourful, and full of facts!
Email your butterfly lifecycle to ed@tki.org.nz.
Mataora
He pēhea nei tō mōhio ki te mataora o te ngāngara? I mōhio rānei koe, e whā kē ngā wāhanga o te mataora o ētahi o ngā ngāngara: te hua, te tunga, te tungoungou, me te ngāngara matua. Ko te nuinga o ngā whakatipuranga, ka haere i ngā wāhanga o te tunga.
- Huakina te
mataora o ngā ngāngara.
- āta pānuihia ngā pārongo, me whai aro atu ki ngā kupu uaua. Me āta noho koe kia mārama rā anō koe ki ngā tū āhua o te tunga, te tūngoungou, me te mataora hoki.
- Nā, tāngia mai tōu ake mataora o te pūrerehua. Whakamahia tēnei tauira o te mataora o te kahukura hei whakarato whakaaro hei whakaatu i ō mahi. Kia mārama, kia maha ngā tae, kia kĪ hoki i te meka matua.
Īmeratia tō mataora pūrerehua ki a ed@tki.org.nz.
Spiders are Arthropods not really insects, because insects have six legs and
spiders have eight but, we can think of them as creepy crawlies as
they can scare us. They also eat other insects catching them in their
web and sucking their blood!
- Open this spider
website and read about spiders living in New Zealand.
- Explore the
Matapihi showcases especially the new theme on insects and spiders.
- Make a spider mobile out of clean, recyclable packaging and write eight interesting spider facts and attach them to your mobile.
or
Make a dream catcher
The dream catcher looks similar to a spider web. Bad dreams get caught and disappear when the sun comes up while good dreams float through the web, down the feather, and onto the person sleeping beneath it.
Follow these dream
catcher directions (Word 35KB) to make a dream catcher like the
Native Americans once made.
Email a photo of your mobile or dream catcher ed@tki.org.nz.
Poisonous spiders
Did you know New Zealand has only two poisonous spiders that can
harm people and in some cases cause death. The katipō
spider is our only native poisonous spider and the Australian
red back spider arrived to New Zealand from Australia.
- Open this 'Otago
Museum' website scroll down and open the red katipō link.
- Read the information and look carefully at the pictures of each
spider. You will see that the white tailed spider is also mentioned,
but this is not as poisonous as the other two spiders.
- These
spiders and other insects can often bite or sting you because
this is their way of protecting themselves.
- Design your own 'Wanted Poster' for one of these spiders.
- Your poster will need information on these spider things:
- appearance: colours, size, special markings
- differences: between the male and female, colours, size
- how they build a web
- habitat: where it lives- the beach, in the bush
- diet: what it eats
- treatment: how to treat its poisonous bite.
Email your 'Wanted Posters' to ed@tki.org.nz.
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