How does a caterpillar become a butterfly? Watch it happen before your eyes by raising your very own caterpillar. You can find the best tips for caterpillar parenting by visiting the Children's Butterfly Site at www.kidsbutterfly.org. There are coloring pages that take you through the lifecycle of a Monarch butterfly, great info on books and videos, and links to other sites on butterflies. Check out the fabulous photo gallery of the world's most beautiful insects. At this site you will metamorphose into a fan of these friendly flying creatures. Come out of your cocoon and log on with butterfly lovers all over the world!

The Web is filled with things that creep, croak and howl. Visit the dens and hollow logs of the Internet, where you'll find some amazing creatures. At the Wolf Center, www.wolf.org, you can run with the pack. Dig down to Worm World http://yucky.kids.discovery.com. It's one of the yuckiest sites on the Web! Get off your lily pad and hop over to www.cs.
yale.edu/homes/sjl/froggy.html where all things cute and green live and catch flies.

If you are crazy about bugs, point your antenna and your favorite Web browser to Gordon's Entomological Home Page at www.earthlife.net/insects. You will find an on-line collection of all kinds of bugs, from spiders and insects to arthropods and mites. For some really buggy fun, visit the Insect Asides, where you will find unbelievable bits of bug trivia as well as insect recipes! Have a question that's been bugging you about these crawly, creepy creatures? Here, you can ask an expert anything bug-related. For those potential ant farmers out there, Gordon has provided a page on caring for the most easily cared for pets around-bugs! They are cheap to feed, easy to clean up after and they never bark! Of course, links to other bug-friendly sites abound, and there is even a Bug Club. So if you're batty about bugs, Gordon's bug pages are a must-see site on your next WWW journey. (Disclaimer: This site now contains advertisements.)

Besides being some of the funniest on-line creatures, worms are underground farmers who have been hip to recycling way before people caught on. Without them, much of what we throw out would still be sitting around in heaps. These wiggly creatures have decided to change the way we think about them-they aren't yucky!-so they've set up a page at http://yucky.kids.discovery.com. Go see for yourself just how wonderful worms are. Listen to worm interviews and jazzy worm poems. Then play some cool worm games, like Worm Lib. You fill in the blanks, and out comes an outrageous story guaranteed to tickle your funny bone. Give worms a chance-you're sure to have fun at Worm World, and hey, you may even come away with some warm feelings about our earthy friends! Charles Darwin once said about worms, "It may be doubted whether there are many other animals in the world which have played so important a part in the history of the world." Quite a statement, and not the least bit exaggerated! (Disclaimer: This site now contains advertisements.)

They're back! Only now they're flying around the World Wide Web at http://andygiger.com/science/beye/beyehome.html. This summer, there's quite a buzz over B-Eye, a site that allows you to see the world through the eyes of a honeybee. Developed by a scientist in Australia, B-Eye lets you first choose an image and then you can see it through the eyes of our yellow and black striped friends using the program he developed. After experiencing a bee vision, you'll know why they're always in a stinging mood.

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