Things are Getting A Little Buggy Around Here

                             

The second Tuesday of the month means its time for the Dirty Rascals to get together for their monthly Junior Master Gardener 4-H meeting.  This month their meeting was a little creepy with various crawlies.  Mack Johnson, the Horticulture Extension Agent with Robeson County Cooperative Extension office worked with the youth and talked with them all about bugs.

  They got to see all different sorts of bugs in a display that the Extension office uses.  They also learned interesting facts about bugs; for example did you know that only 1% of the 100,000 species of insects in America are harmful?  How about the fact that butterflies range in size from 1/8 of an inch to up to 12 inches?  Have you ever seen where praying mantises come from?  Well this group did when they played bug detective.

   After learning all about these creatures the members got to make some sticky ones of their own.  Using glitter glue and a pattern they made their own creative glittery bugs.  Some had supper powers like leaping tall buildings while other bugs liked to eat lobster.  When the glue bugs dry on the wax paper that they were created on the youth will be able to peel them off and play with them sticking them in all sorts of places, kind of like real bugs.  

  The Dirty Rascals will take June and July off and plan to meet again in August, just in time to plan their fair booth for the Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair.  If you would like more information on this, or other, 4-H Clubs please contact the Ribeson County 4-H office at (910) 671-3276.