Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 2:43 pm Post subject: Help with kids school project
Hey guys,
My son is in 4th grade and has been assigned a California Endangered Species report. His animal is the Valley Elderberry Longhorn beetle, Desmocerus californicus dimorphus. Just wondering if anyone had any info on them or (even better) some photos of them in the wild that you could share?
Thanks for your help! _________________ Mommy loves her little Monsters.
I'm sure Francisco will chime in when he has a moment (beeetles are his speciality) also Kevin could probably help out to, hes knows alot of everything _________________ “Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself.”
excellent article
http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/ic...acts/valley-elderberry-beetle.htm
apparently the cognoscenti call them VELB's heh
this link has a good picture. based on the assumption that link is correct and similar looking beetles are the same thing (a horrible assumption but one that er, would probably escape the consumers of a 4th grade science project)
There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
Heehee! Thanks, Andrew. I think I'll pass on that last picture, however. We haven't had THAT talk yet!
Yeah, I try to have him be accurate and thorough for his own sake. He probably already knows more about animals than his teacher. Most of the parents did not realize that beetles were even animals. Even my 6-year-old has had to correct his teacher and explain to her that a turtle is a reptile and not an amphibian. On the downside, they don't know jack about math because Mommy thinks that's boring!
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