St Johns Visit 4 March 2020
Wednesday 4 March - Minibeast Scavenger Hunt
Around 50 St John’s junior students looked under rocks, shook trees, searched into half eaten apples, spotted in trees, looked in the worm farm and emptied the nets from the pond to find all the different kinds of environments that mini beasts live in. And they found that they live everywhere! In all kinds of habitats and environments - the kahikatea swamp forest, the restored forest areas, the pond, in and around the vege gardens and fruit trees in the orchard, and in the worm farm (and there were not only worms here but slaters and ants too!). The numbers of legs were counted, noting that insects have 6 legs, while slaters have more than 6 legs. The discarded exoskeletons were found and studied, with wondering about what they might see when looked at even more closely back at school under the microscope. We looked at damselflies and dragonflies and found the water living larvae forms of both these insects - how amazing. Blood worms, water mites and boatmen were all found in the pond. A long nosed weevil, a black ladybug with two red spots, moths, a shield bug and spiders were all found.
Bronwyn
Posted: 8 March 2020