Meerkat Bug Hunter Badge

Badge requirements

With an adult, go to any place where there is grass and nature (local park, bottom of the garden, somewhere at the hall, anywhere where bugs are likely to live.) Find a good spot and then see how many bugs you can see.

Do THREE of the following:

1. Find out about spiders. Are spiders insects?
2. Make a poster or play dough models of the life cycle of a butterfly.
3. Find out how to prevent mosquito bites.
4. Make a bee or bug hotel.
5. Find out about the life cycle of bees and how bees help us.
6. Find out about your favourite bug: where does it live? What does it like to eat? What likes to eat it? Does it live alone or in a colony or a swarm?