Teanna Messenger

The Week 1 Winner.....

From Mr. Wilson: "Spiders belong to a group of animals called “arachnids”. ... Arachnids are creatures with two body segments, eight legs, no wings or antennae and are not able to chew. Many people think that spiders are insects, but they are mistaken since insects have six legs and three main body parts. Teanna’s photo of what I think is a wolf spider -- I am no entomologist (someone who
studies insects) -- did a great job capturing some of a spider’s body parts. If you zoom in, you can even see the hairs on the spider’s legs. Another similar looking spider that lives in Wisconsin is the Fishing Spider. They look very similar. Science is truly amazing and complicated. Common names of species can be sometime be very confusing, that is why we organize animals by scientific name: The “Wolf Spider's” real name is Lycosidae which means wolf in Latin.

Dylan Eith

Week 1 Second Place

From Mr. Wilson: "Worms are also not insects. ...While Dylan’s photo was also very fun and creative it also technically is not an insect. Both worms and insects are classified under the Kingdom Animalia. The animal kingdom is split into two groups: vertebrate, animals with a backbone, and invertebrate, animals without a backbone. Both worms and insects are invertebrates but unlike worms, insects have an exoskeleton. Speaking of exoskeleton’s……

Tommy Hohner

Week 1 Third Place

From Mr. Wilson: Tommy captured a photo of an exoskeleton from a dragonfly. The dragonfly is truly a “Land and Water” creative where they first live in the water and then transform into a flying insect. Tommy’s photo is just the left-over skin. Like a snake shedding its skin or a monarch caterpillar turning into a butterfly. Dragonflies …are insects. How many legs do they have???? 6 Legs.

Brayden Tyler

Week 1 Honorable Mention

From Mr. Wilson: I have no idea what kind of beetle that is… It’s super cool looking. I’ll look in some books to see if we can find out what it is. Beetles are super cool. In fact, there are 350,000 beetle species in the world.

While there are 250,000 described species of plants, 12,000 described species of roundworms, and only 4,000 described species of mammals, there are over 350,000 beetle species described, with many more beetles yet to be discovered!

The rest of you have house flies…I think…Still very cool looking…Insects

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Dylan Eith

Dylan Eith

Dylan Eith

Tommy Hohner

Logan Pischer

Colton

Jayce

Rylee