Almost Unschoolers

Yesterday, a butterfly flew by our window.  We set off with our butterfly net to catch it, in hopes of making an identification. Scie...

While identifying the Queen Alexandra's Sulpur butterflies in our backyard , we read that they are also sometimes called UV Sulphur...

While we were out trying to get a peek at the baby ground squirrels , the kids noticed the small butterflies, that I had been calling c...

No impromptu honey bee study would be complete without a quick look at compound eyes.  I thought, briefly, about running into town t...

One of the interesting facts we read about bees, this week, is that the little hairs on their bodies build up a static electric charge,...

The creation above was D(age12)'s contribution to our honeybee study, yesterday.  It started out in the morning as a Kafkaesque combi...

While we were out looking at ground squirrel holes, and ladybugs , C (age 8) also spotted an Apis mellifera on our Taraxacum officinale....

Have you spotted your first ladybug yet, this spring? I love how the first spotting is always a surprise.  We were out checking out o...

My little bug spotters sighted a second ladybug for our list ... ...actually it's the third or fourth ladybug they've spotte...

We spotted our first ladybug of the season, in our yard, this week - a convergent ladybug, to be precise. And, we do want to be precis...