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Crowley Museum & Nature Center Just for Kids!
Wildlife Detectives featured here examining clues.
Kids Create Nature Crafts
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Crowley Museum & Nature Center Just for Kids!
Wildlife Detectives featured here examining clues.
Kids Create Nature Crafts
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Current KidsEvents
(None scheduled for July)
(See Programs for More Information)
***Click here to see more kids upcoming programs at Crowley Museum & Nature Center***
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Wildlife Quiz! Can you answer these wildlife questions? Answers are at the bottom of the page. |
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1. This insect is molting. Do you know what kind of insect it is? Hint: You can often find the molted skins clinging to trees. |
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2. This is a picture of a plant living on another plant. It is an epiphyte living on a live oak tree. Does the epiphyte hurt the oak tree?
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3. This gopher tortoise is posing for a picture. There are several tortoises living at Crowley near the office area. Gopher tortoises dig long burrows under the ground. Can you guess what other animals use gopher tortoise burrows?
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4. This common snake just hatched out of its egg. What kind of snake is it? Hint: When this snake grows up, it will look very different. |
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5. This is a picture of a grey fox here at Crowley. Do you know what a fox eats? |
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6. Can you identify this commonly found insect? |
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More wildlife questions coming soon! |
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Answers:
1. The insect shown is a cicada. Cicadas are flying insects that eat plants. They have big eyes, set far apart on their heads, and they have short antennae. Cicadas don't hurt people or other animals. They do treat us to a "buzzing" song from up in the trees!
2. Epiphytes, also called "air plants," do not hurt the trees they live on. They use the trees as an anchor and get everything they need from the air around them. There are many different kinds of air plants, including butterfly orchids, wild pine and others. Spanish moss is a common air plant that you have definitely seen if you live in Florida. It looks like long, gray witch hair!
3. Gopher tortoises are very important to ecosystems, since their burrows provide homes for so many other animals- over 360 different animal species to be exact! Different reptiles, amphibians, insects, mammals and even birds will use gopher tortoise burrows for shelter!! Snakes such as the threatened indigo snake and the eastern diamondback rattlesnake will use the burrows for resting or for hunting. The gopher frog, the gopher cricket, burrowing owl, and Florida mouse are other species that use gopher tortoise burrows.
4.This is a picture of a juvenile black racer. Black racers are very common non-venomous snakes at Crowley and throughout southwest Florida. They are very fast. Many times, all one sees of a black racer is the end of its tail as it quickly slithers away from approaching humans.
5. The typical grey fox eats small mammals, lizards, amphibians, small birds, insects, berries, acorns. Because the grey fox eats both plants and animals, it is an omnivore. A carnivore is an animal that eats only animals. An herbivore eats only plants. Can you think of examples of carnivores and herbivores?
6. This is a picture of an adult Lubber Grasshopper. When the Lubber Grasshoppers are young, they are black. From the time they hatch in the spring, the Lubber Grasshopper goes through 7 stages until the final transformation in the summer when they become the insect pictured here. The adult can reach 3" in length.
Did you know that
Crowley Museum & Nature Center hosts nature and pioneer history
field trips
for local school groups from first grade & up?
Tell your teacher about Crowley!
We also have a comprehensive Ecology program for third grade students called
"Natural Connections." The program includes a video, a teacher's manual, a visit to your classroom from Crowley volunteers, and a field trip to the Center!
Call (941) 322-1000 for details.
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Suggestions & comments are always welcome.
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