The Kids' Good Bug Page

Would you like to hear
"The Rest of the Story?"
If all the good bugs were taken from the earth,
mankind could only live for a few weeks.      Why?

• Pollinators Feed Us: The Story of Pollination     (Under construction)
  Part 1  Flower parts and pollen
  Part 2  Bees as pollinators  (under construction)
  Part 3  Corn and other wind-pollinated plants  (under construction)
  Part 4  Pollen Allergies - What to blame  (under construction)
  Part 5  What do beekeepers do?   (under construction)
  Part 6  Following the bloom - beekeepers migrating with the seasons.    (under construction)
  Part 7  How to make homes and help solitary bees.

• Good Bugs and Bad Bugs: One bug controls another...
  Cottony Cushion Scale: The Pest that launched a revolution in pest control methods
  How spraying for a bad bug kills some good bug
        and creates a population explosion of other bad bugs.
  Wonderful Wasps and the good they do*
  

• Everything is linked
  Learning about butterflies and their host plants by raising them

• Using good bugs to control bad ones - info for research projects for older students:

ACORN   Alternative Control Outreach Research Network at Purdue  IL
Biological Control News     WI   
Biological Control Virtual Information Center   NC 
Biological Control (Journal)  
List of Suppliers of Beneficial Insects in North America

• Honey: Liquid Sunshine     (Under Construction)

• Why Bees and Wasps Have to Sting   (For different reasons, actually)  (Under Construction)

• The Glossary of Pollination and Ecological Terms  Big words...true...BUT...if you don't know the words, you can't understand the ideas.  (Under Construction)

• The Wisdom of the Creator   (Under Construction)

   All parts of the Kids' Good Bug Page are copyrighted by David L. Green, and no part may be used for any purpose without permission. For the general policy for use of images on the Kids' Good Bug Page and The Pollination Home Page, click here.

   Students may make one copy of any part of The Kids' Good Bug Page for homework or for a school project, but must include (copy and paste) the following credit line:
"From the Kids' Good Bug Page:  http://goodbugpage.com/ "

*Note on Protection from Stings

Other interesting sites about bugs:
   Steve Hoffmann's Nature and Scenic Photography
   The Minibeast World of Insects and Spiders
   The Children's Butterfly Site
   Nick's Insects  Lot's of photos and an insect anatamy lesson
   Backyard Bug Watching Bug learning and conservation from SASI in Tucson

For Info and Images of Pollination, Visit the Pollination Home Page