Good day my followers.
We started this week learning about Insects,learning all about them. We learned the different types of insects like ground beetles that have a chemical defense, dung beetles that roll a ball of dung then you get your wood boring beetles, blister beetles, fire flies, lady birds and tok tokkies. In the entire kingdom there is 300 000 species. Insects are divided in 3 type of body part, the head the thorax and the abdomen.
The following day we learned about scorpions and spiders. Spiders and Scorpions carry the same venom cytotoxic... The venomous spiders in S.A is the voilin spider, yellow sac spider and the black button spider. Then with scorpions how to identify a scorpion is by the thickness of the tail the size of the pincers and the abdomen (body). Your 4 types of scorpions, burrowing scorpion, bark scorpion, thick tail scorpion and your sand dwelling scorpion. Scorpions without tails are known us false scorpions and book-scorpions, we have got 172 species of scorpions in S.A.Then again we started with Astronomy, astronomy is your universe planets, stars etc. We learned the 9 planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
It was a nice week and yet again learned allot... Chow for Now
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