our year one minibeast powerpoints

What does it look like?What does it look like?

Earthworms are notinsects because they have more than six legs and five hearts. AnEarthworm can be brown, pink or red. Earthworms can be 1cm long or 4 meters

long.

Where do Earthworms live?Where do Earthworms live?

Earthworms live anywhere in the world

where there is soil and

food! They can live in a

worm farms too.

What Earthworms eat?What Earthworms eat?

Earthworms eat soil and

food scraps like fruit

and vegetables.

Do Earthworms have predators?Do Earthworms have predators?

Earthworms have

predators like birds.

Interesting facts!Interesting facts!

Did you know that earthworms do not haveTeeth and that all Earthworms lay eggs! There are green and

blue earthworms and did you know that lumbricus terrestris is a another name for earthworms.

By Bianca

Ladybirds

Ladybirds are invertebrates because they have no back bone. Ladybirds are also insects because they have six legs. They have a hard shell on top of their transparent wings. The colour of its shell is red and it has black dots. Ladybirds have three legs on each side.

Ladybirds live in grasslands and woodlands.Ladybirds live in your garden too.

Ladybird’s predators are birds and spiders.

Several little ladybirds could stand on a small coin. A lady bird stretches its wings. Some ladybirds sleep in winter away from its

predators. Ladybirds gather at autumn. Ladybirds are not all ladies they can be male or

female.

Ladybugs have six legs. Ladybugs have a hard shell over their wings to keep their wings safe. Ladybugs have a hard cover. ladybugs have head, a thorax and an abdomen.

Ladybugs live almost everywhere. They live in grasslands and they live in cities. Ladybugs also live near the rivers.

Ladybugs eat aphids and they eat plants.

Ladybug’s predators are birds, spiders, frogs even moths too.

Interesting facts?A ladybug Perches

on a flower. A ladybug stretches

its wings.

What does it look like?

An ant looks hairy and scary. Ants look disgusting too. They look dangerous as well.

An ant is a insect because they have six legs and three body parts.

They look tiny.

Where ants live?

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What it eats

Do ants have predators?

Ants predators are spiders and birds.

Interesting facts

Ants have three body parts. Ants build a large circle so they can cross the river.

Interesting facts.

Ants can lift up twenty classmates.

Ants are very strong.

By Jerry

What Mosquitoes look like? Mosquitoes are insects

because they have six legs and three body parts. The three body parts are head, thorax and abdomen. On the head there are antennae, large dark eyes and a proboscis. On the abdomen there are wings.

Where does it live?Mosquitoes live around water like ponds, lakes

and even swimming pools.

What do mosquitoes eat?Mosquitoes eat blood and male mosquitoes

drink nectar from flowers.

What are mosquitoes predators?Spiders, fly traps, frogs and lizards.

Interesting factsMale mosquitoes drink nectar. Female

Mosquitoes like smelly feet.

Stick insect and leaf insects.

By lily

What does it look like?Stick insects and leaf insects are insects and

they have six legs. Stick insects are invertebrates because they have no back bone.

Stick insects look like sticks because they have a stick in their name. Stick insects have three body parts a head, thorax and an abdomen.

Where do stick insects live?Stick insects and leaf

insects live in gum trees because they need to be near sticks and they eat gum leaves.

Stick insects live under sticks so they can camouflage.

What do stick insects eat?

• Stick insects and leaf insects love to eat gum leaves. Stick insects drink water. Stick insects eat roses. Stick insects eat raspberry bushes too.

What are stick insects predators?

Stick insects and leaf insects predators are birds and spiders.

Stick insects are the best

Interesting facts?Stick insects and leaf insects can walk up side

down. Stick insects can make different shapes. They can move when they are hanging.

What does it look like?Spiders are not insects.Spiders are hairy.Spiders have eight legs

with joints.They have a mouth with

jaws.

What does it eat?It eats flies, insects and small lizards.

Does it have predators?Daddy-long-legs spiders and white tailed spiders.

Interesting facts.

Red back spiders bite and are poisonous to people.Boy red back spiders do not build webs and they don’t have a red mark.

An ant has three body parts because ants are insects. Some or every ant has a

stinger they can squirt poison, sting poison or bite poison. Ants are very strong! They can lift up twenty room mates! Can you lift

that much? Ants have jaws to bite.

Ants live in a hole called a colony and it’s under ground near tree bark.

Ants eat dead birds, food and seeds.

Ants get eaten by spiders.

Did you know that ants can lift up twenty room mates. Drone ants have no stingers. Queen ants lay eggs.

By Nefiz

Spiders are invertebrates because they have no backbone. They are not insects because they have eight legs and insects have six. They also have two body parts a cephalothorax and an abdomen. They also have eight eyes and no antennae. They have no wings because they can’t fly. But they are hairy. They also have joints in their legs and a spinneret. The spinneret is joined to its abdomen.

Spiders can live under ground, in trees, on its web and in forests.

Spiders eat insects like flies, mosquitoes and ladybirds.

Spiders predators are birds, lizards and tiger beetles.

Did you know spiders have no backbone. Male red back spiders don’t have a red mark and don’t build webs! Spiders don’t have teeth.

By MassimoBy Massimo

BBEEEESS

What bees look like?Bees have a black

and yellow abdomen.

Bees are invertebrates because they have no back bone and have their bones on the outside.

Bees have six legs and wings attached to its thorax.

Where do bees live?

Bees live in hives. Bees stay where

there are lots of flowers because the nectar helps them to stay alive.

Bees can also live in boxes made by farmers.

What do bees eat?

Bees eat nectar from flowers.

They also eat honey left in a honey jar.

What are bees predators?

Bee’s predators are birds, spiders, bears and even wasps.

Interesting facts

A bees group can look like a very big branch. Bees groups can be as big as a dog. Bees are so hairy they look like a spider. There can be 5000 bees in a hive.

Spiders by Salma.

What spiders look like?Spiders are not insects, because it has eight

legs. A spider has a hairy body. Spiders have eight eyes too. Spiders have a spinneret. A spider has two body parts and the two body parts are called a head and an abdomen.

Where spiders live?

`It lives on land, in

the forest and in its web.

What do spiders eat?Some spiders eat

butterflies. Also spiders eat flies, moths and insects.

Does it have predators?

Birds eat spiders. Also daddy long legs and lizards eat spiders.

Interesting facts?

Spiders lay lots of eggs. Spiders are not insects.