Year 2: What are the features of micro-habitats?

This week we designed bug hotels by using what we learned 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.

The children are looking forward to applying what they've learned into making their bug hotels next week!