Use an ink pad, your fingerprints and a marker to create animals, people, trees, houses… even a whole neighborhood on paper.
Clean up with an alcohol prep pad.
Creative and fun!
Category: Animals
How to flip a bug over
I’ve been getting a lot of random bugs in the house due to the warm weather. For some reason I’m finding a lot of them on their back, flailing legs-up trying to turn over. The pet’s water dish outside gets several bugs each night, mostly beetles.
Sometimes I don’t want to flip over the bugs with my fingers because I’m afraid I’ll damage the fragile legs or body. Other times I don’t want to risk getting bit/stung. And in the case of the water dish, it’s ridiculous to try to fish those little suckers out or dump the bowl without drowning them.
Flipping them over each time and/or removing them (part of the Insect Relocation Program) has been comically awkward until I stumbled onto this tip by accident:
- Fold a piece of tissue or paper in half.
- Hold it over the insect’s body lengthwise, hovering between the insect’s legs.
- The little legs will immediately stop flailing and clamp onto the tissue/paper (it’s actually kinda cute and funny to watch).
- The little critter will then climb up and over the tissue/paper, righting itself.
- Done!
Once it’s on the paper you can either easily carry it outside, or just lay the paper on the ground and let the bug walk off, happily right-side up. This works when you’re fishing bumbling insects out of water too. If the critter is on its back in the water, then just follow the same instructions above. If the critter is right-side up in the water, place the paper almost level with the water surface and slightly under the bug — it will respond in the same way, allowing you to relocate it.
This has worked with several kinds of beetles and general bug-like things, so I imagine it’ll work with most insects.
Tell the Difference Between Alligators and Crocodiles
In terms of physical differences the easiest way to tell the difference between the two is that a crocodile has a very long, narrow, V-shaped snout, while the alligator’s snout is wider and U-shaped. Because of the wide snout of the alligator it packs more crushing power to eat prey like turtles that constitute part of its diet. The narrow crocodile snout, although still very powerful, is not really suited for prey like turtles but is very versatile for fish and mammals.
Another physical difference between the crocodile and the alligator is that the crocodile’s upper and lower jaws are nearly the same width, so the teeth are exposed all along the jaw line in an interlocking pattern, even when the mouth is closed. They also have an enormous 4th tooth on the lower jaw that is accommodated by depressions in the upper jaw just behind the nostrils.
An alligator, on the other hand, has a wider upper jaw, so when its mouth is closed the teeth in the lower jaw fit into sockets of the upper jaw, hidden from view. Only the teeth of the upper jaw are exposed along the lower jaw line. Even the enormous 4th tooth on the bottom jaw, which is exposed in a crocodile, is hidden in the alligator.
Know Your Animal Groups
Did you know that a group of baracudas is a ‘battery’? 
Or that a group of crows is a ‘murder’?
Or a group of frogs is an ‘army’?
HERE‘s a list of many other interesting animal group names, check it out!!
Water bottle drinking bowl for your dog
A simple solution to walking the dogs in an area with no water points.Basically two soda bottles one cut,in half lengthways.It then clips over the other.I sewed up a simple carrier and hey presto the dogs get that much needed drink of water on their walk.
So all you need is:
two 2 liter bottles
a cutter knife
some webbing
a quick release buckle
a sewing machine and about 20 minutes
Do It And How 