Do you Know Minibeasts?蟲兒飛

Minibeast是指小型無(wú)脊椎動(dòng)物。在自然科學(xué)課上，你學(xué)到過(guò)哪些呢？它們有的長(zhǎng)得靈巧可愛(ài)，有的卻不怎么討人喜歡。以下我們介紹的這幾種，有沒(méi)有一款是你的最愛(ài)？

Bees live in a group called a colony（聚居地）. Each colony has one queen bee who lays（產(chǎn)卵） the eggs. Worker bees collect sweet juices from flowers to make honey.

Dragonflies have six legs but they cannot walk. They can fly very fast.

A ladybird is a small beetle（甲殼蟲）. It has dark spots on its brightly coloured wing cases（翅鞘）. Ladybirds eat small insects.

All spiders have eight legs. They catch and eat small flying insects， like flies and moths（飛蛾）.

Flies have six legs. They have only one pair of wings. Flies can flap（輕拍） their wings very fast.

A snail glides（滑動(dòng)） along the ground on one large foot. When danger comes， it can hide its soft body inside the hard shell on its back.

●Caterpillar 毛蟲

A female（雌性的） butterfly lays eggs on a plant. The eggs hatch（孵化） into caterpillars， which eat the plant’s leaves.

●Chrysalis蟲繭

Each caterpillar grows big and fat. Its skin hardens and it turns into a chrysalis（蛹，繭）.

●Butterfly 蝴蝶

After a few weeks， a butterfly climbs out. When its wings dry， it flies away.

蜜蜂

蜜蜂生活在一個(gè)叫蜂群的群體里。每個(gè)蜂群都有一個(gè)蜂后，專門產(chǎn)卵。工蜂從花叢中采集甜汁來(lái)釀造蜂蜜。

蜻蜓

蜻蜓有六條腿，但卻不會(huì)走路。它們能飛得很快。

瓢蟲

瓢蟲是一種小甲殼蟲。它那色彩鮮艷的翅鞘上有深色的斑點(diǎn)。瓢蟲吃小昆蟲。

蜘蛛

所有的蜘蛛都有八條腿。它們捕食小飛蟲，例如蒼蠅和飛蛾。

蒼蠅

蒼蠅有六條腿。它們只有一雙翅膀。蒼蠅的翅膀能夠扇動(dòng)得非常快。

蝸牛

蝸牛用一只大腳在地上爬行。當(dāng)危險(xiǎn)臨近，它能夠?qū)⑷彳浀纳眢w藏到背上的硬殼里。

蝴蝶的生命周期

毛蟲

雌性蝴蝶在一棵植物上產(chǎn)卵。蟲卵孵化成毛蟲，它們吃植物的葉子。

蟲繭

每條毛蟲長(zhǎng)得又大又胖。它的皮膚變硬，然后變成一個(gè)蟲繭。

蝴蝶

幾周后，蝴蝶就會(huì)爬出來(lái)。等它的翅膀變干了，它就會(huì)飛走。