The Bug Chicks – A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. Last Sunday I woke up at 5AM and packed up my trusty car with my arthropod zoo and some bug costumes. I made the three hour drive up to Seattle (after stopping to get coffee- I’m not a robot) to...
The Bug Chicks – A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. Sometimes finding the evidence of an animal is just as exciting and interesting as finding the animal itself. Unfurling a leaf I uncovered a mass of silk and excrement from what I’m assuming was a leaf...
The Bug Chicks – A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. After we spoke at NAITC in Phoenix in June we rushed over to a radio station to record a segment for a public radio show that airs in Vermont called “But Why Kids.” Several children were recorded asking...
The Bug Chicks – A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. I took a botany class once. It was…fine. It was the semester before I went to Kenya for the first time and I took it concurrently with entomology, so it was never going to have a chance to feel my love....
The Bug Chicks – A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. I went out for a walk around the block with my FlipView digital microscope, looking for inspiration. After playing with the video function and filming some pollinators I decided to turn my sights onto...
The Bug Chicks – A site for parents, teachers and bugdorks. I challenged myself to walk around the block and simply explore with my FlipView microscope with an assignment to shoot some video with it. I didn’t even make it one quarter of the way! I shot some...
