Year 2: What are the features of micro-habitats? (Designing a bug hotel).

This week we used what we have learned in Forest School and Science to design bug hotels. We thought about different minibeasts and their micro-habitats. A big factor in where a minibeast lives is down to their diet. For example:

• Caterpillars eat leaves so they like to live on top or underneath leaves.
• Ants eat other insects so they live underground.
• Worms eat dead leaf matter, and they like to live in moist soil.
• Spiders can live in a variety of places. They build webs to catch smaller insects to eat.
• Ladybirds eat plants, insects and even fungus. During the summer they live in shrubs, branches and flowers. When it gets colder they find a sheltered place, such as a tree stump or cracks in wood.