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Fascinating Facts
Learn new facts about bugs!
What Campers will Learn:
Scientists who study bugs are called entomologists. Let’s learn some facts about our not-so-creepy outdoor friends!
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Caterpillars are fuzzy worms that turn into butterflies. Did you know caterpillars have 12 eyes?
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Did you know that grasshoppers lived before the dinosaurs? Grasshoppers have a special place in their back legs where they store energy so that they can jump really high!
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An ant can live up to 30 years and carry 50 times its own weight! They don’t have ears and feel sounds through their feet.
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Try This Together! Take a nature walk. If you spot a bug – a butterfly or an ant or another not-so-creepy outdoor friend – take a picture of it and have your scientist draw it when you get home. Then email us at NogginCares@viacom.com so we can share it in our gallery!
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