Let’s have a little fun, a little learning and a little YIKES! today with the KATYDID: The Katydid is an…
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Let’s have a little fun, a little learning and a little YIKES! today with the JUNE BUG: It’s so fun…
Let’s have a little fun, a little learning and a little YIKES! today with the ICHNEUMON WASP: The word Ichneumon…
Let’s have a little fun, a little learning and a little YIKES! today with the HORN FLY: As the story…
Let’s have a little fun, a little learning and a little YIKES! today with the GNAT: Let’s get right to…
Let’s have a little fun, a little learning and a little YIKES! with the FIREFLY: Do you know what bioluminescence…
Let’s have a little fun, a little learning and a little YIKES! today with the DADDY LONG-LEGS: The arachnid nick-named…
Let’s have a little fun, a little learning and a little YIKES! today with the EARWIG: The Earwig is not…
Let’s have some fun and some YIKES! today with the CATALPA WORM: It’s interesting to know that the Catalpa Worm…
Let’s have some fun and some YIKES! today with the BLATTELLA GERMANICA: The noun Genus BLATTELLA refers to small cockroaches.…
The LUPINE… both an ornamental garden plant and wild one too, the Lupine has an interesting name origin. Lupine derives…
The IRIS… in Greek mythology, Iris is the goddess who acts as a messenger of the Gods, appearing to mortals…
The MARIGOLD… with reference to Mary, the Virgin Mother, the English derivative of Marigold is a combination of Mary +…
The GERANIUM… derived from the Greek word geranós, meaning crane, the Geranium’s fruit capsule is thought to resemble a crane’s…
The VIOLA… delicately heart-shaped and beautifully colored in yellows, whites, blues, lavenders, creams and glorious bi-colors, the Viola is more…
The LOBELIA enirus… with its masses of lovely, delicate fan-shaped flowers, it is almost impossible to believe that the Lobelia…
The DIANTHUS… the name derived from the Greek word for Jupiter Flower, or Flower of the Gods, the Dianthus is…
The STRAWBERRY BLOSSOM… each Strawberry comes from a lovely Strawberry Blossom, and the process from bloom-to-berry is like a tiny…
The BLUEBERRY BLOSSOM… before the Blueberry becomes a berry, it first is a Blueberry Blossom. Delicately bell-shaped, the Blueberry Blossom…
YARROW… lovely, wispy and fern-like, the Yarrow has quite an interesting origin. Achillea is the Yarrow’s botanical name, coming from…

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