1. MINI- BEASTS
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2. WHAT IS A MINI- BEAST? Nymph Maggot Ant Mole Bird Pygmy Possum
Scorpion
Starfish
Snail
Spider
Swallow
Worm
Zebra
Ant
Bird
Butterfly
Caterpillar
Centipede
Cockroach
Dog
Earwig
Elephant
Lady beetle
Lion
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3. Yes, it is a mini- beast
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4. NOPE, not a mini-beast
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5. SO, WHAT IS A MINI- BEAST?
Can you feel you spine or backbone? MOST mini- beasts do not have a backbone but a tough type of shell called an exoskeleton. Insects are a type of mini- beast, so are crabs, starfish, spiders and beetles.
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6. THE STUDY OF MINI- BEASTS
Believe it or not but some people dedicate their lives to studying and finding new bugs and mini- beasts. These people are called ENTOMOLOGISTS.
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7. BUG BITS
INSECTS have a Head, Thorax and Abdomen. They can also have wings, legs, feeler and mouth parts.

8. CATEGORIES OF MINI- BEASTS.
Mini-beasts are
separated into four categories:
Myriapods
Insects
Arachnids
Crustaceans
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9. SO NEVER PICK ONE UP. IT COULD BE A NASTY CENTIPEDE.
Mad Myriapod
Myriapods are creatures with many, many legs.
Millipede
Centipede
Both have lots of little body pieces.
MILLIPEDES have two legs on each body piece and centipedes have only one
By the way, CENTIPEDES are nasty, they have poison and eat other bugs.
Millipedes are nice, they eat leaves.
SO NEVER PICK ONE UP. IT COULD BE A NASTY CENTIPEDE.

10. Insane Insects
Insects are land animals with an external skeleton of hard plates with flexible membranes. They are divided into three body parts:
Head
Thorax
Abdomen
WASP
FLY
BUTTERFLY
ANT
COCKROACH
CATERPILLAR
EARWIG
BEETLE
BEE
GRASSHOPPER
FACT: Spiders are not insects, as they only have two body sections and eight legs.

11. AHHH Arachnids! Heard of Arachnophobia? It means a fear of spiders.
Spiders, scorpions, tick and mites are all arachnids.
BE AFRAID! THERE ARE OVER 100,000 TYPES OF ARACHNIDS
And most of them live in Australia
SCORPION
SPIDER
NEVER touch a spider or scorpion. If you find a tick on you or a pet, get an adult to take you to the doctor or your pet to the vet. You can get very sick from a ticks poison.

12. Cool Crustaceans MOST crustaceans are water- dwelling creatures.
Slaters and land crabs are crustaceans, though the live on land.
SLATERS
CRABS
SHRIP
YABBIE
CRAYFISH
BARNACLE
LOBSTER
WATER FLEA
Crustaceans have hard shell like body armour.
They have similar body parts to insects, it is just a harder material.

13. TODAYS TASK...
You will be labelling a diagram of a mini- beast- in this case a fly.
You will then colour the different parts in different colours, for example, all the legs in green, the head in pink.
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14. For those who finish early...
INTERNET CROSSWORD

15. References
Encyclopaedia of the Animal World. (1977)
The Children’s Factfinder. Zigzag publishing.