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Our campers tend to very creative. The Bug Stories below
will bear that out. Please read these most interesting stories.
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FAMILY LOCUSTIDAE
THE GRASSHOPPERS
by
Kathleen Meyers
Milly was the sort of grasshopper that lost track of things. She easily
lost the remote control in the couch rather than the organized mother
of nine that would find it. When it came to her children they numbered
like the stars and that doesn’t
consider her nieces and nephews. Poor Milly! You should see her at Christmas
time, buying gifts is an unbearable pain. One day while it was raining
at bug camp, Milly found herself to be bored. She suddenly reached out
with her left
middle leg and grasped an idea from the dead of nowhere. The idea pulled
back whenever Milly pulled. Since the idea was so large, Milly decided
to use a net.
This helped immensely.
Milly read through the idea and took a moment to contemplate. She decided
she enjoyed the challenge and began working to achieve her new goal. Milly
began pulling out all her scrapbooks and attempting to memorize all the
names of her
relatives. This feat took her a few days, but she managed. Milly began
visiting the neighbors and asking them to help her idea. Milly was on
a mission to find
all her relatives and bring them all together.
Milly hopped all over the place rounding up her family. As more and
more joined in, he group became famous. Humans call them locusts because
of the nuisance
of the swarm Milly created. Milly and her family live in the Texas area.
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FAMILY MANTIDAE
THE MANTIDS
By
Grant Jones
There once was a family of Mantids who lived in Columbus, Mississippi. The family of Mantids was never good at catching prey. There was another family who lived across from them. Their name was the Robertson family. The family we are following are the McSphinkeilmeirs.
One day Sparticus McSphinkeilmeir was looking for food when he finally caught an aphid. “Ha Ha Ha!” laughed Sparticus. “I’ve got you now!”
“No! No! Pease don’t hurt me!” shrieked the aphid. Then Sparticus looked closer at the aphid and noticed it was a fairy. “I will grant you one wish if you will let me go!” “Okay” said Sparticus. So he let her go.
So the fairy granted his wish, it was that his family would have all the aphids they would ever need. And they never went hungry again.
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FAMILY BLATTIDAE
THE ROACHES
by
PETER SU
In the deep sewers of Trenton, two roaches were talking. “I bet you can’t fly all the way to NYC,” said one roach called Jack. “I’ll bet you a rotten piece of squash I can,” replied Tim the other roach. So little Timmy the roach flew toward the big apple. He got bug sprayed, stepped on, almost eaten by a fat dumb duckie. Despite this, Tim made it to NYC alive a year later. “Time for some proof!” he said. He scurried to a nearby dumpster, where he met a hungry frog. “Hey you! Tadpole dude! Do you know where to find something found only in NYC”. The enraged frog said, “No, but I got dinner!” And he ate up little Timmy. But Timmy survived and got out, only to be stepped on by an NFL player. Too tired for proof, he flew back to Trenton. Jack asked him “where you been?”. “NYC”. “Yeah, right.” Timmy got mad and said “smell me”. Jack said “You stink.” You have been to NYC! I can’t stand you!” He ran away, leaving Timmy by himself.
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FAMILY CERCOPIDAE
THE FROGHOPPERS OR SPITTLE BUGS
FREDDIE OF LUGIMON
By
Amelia
Once upon a time in a very distant island of Lugimon lived Freddie Lugi. Freddie L was a son of the town founder. In all the years Freddie had lived, he had never seen what was out side the protective barrier of the island. He had always been told that if you left you never come back. One day Freddie packed his knap sack and started off across the island. Now for some time now Freddie had seemed to be getting to big for his bed. He had also noticed that he had these things growing out of him. Freddie had seen this happen before to another and had heard that Shelia was never seen or heard from again. His siblings told him that she was “taken care of.” So, before he could be “taken care of”, Freddie walked away. As he neared what he came to see were giant bubbles – he became more confident that he was doing the right thing. As he reached through the bubble with a leg, he took flight and flew through the wall. As he took his first flight into adulthood he yelled –“Woo Woo.” Superman ain’t got nothing on me!”
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FAMILY PAPILIONIDAE
THE SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES
RENEE THE SWALLOWTAIL
By
Patricia Wiseman
There once was a big caterpillar named Renee. She and her family travel almost anywhere around the world.
Now what Renee’s biggest problem is eating too much. All the other caterpillars at school tease her because of her fatness. That’s why she’s always transferring schools. Then one day happened. Renee was in her room watching TV eating birch when one of her brothers and sisters said to Renee, “Hey, sis, Mom and Dad got captured by some humans while they were gathering something.”
Her parent told her siblings never mention the word “food” to Renee or else she’d go crazy.
So Renee decided to run away. She decided to rescue her parents, even if it’s going to take forever.
She met a couple of friends along the way. Renee saw a fully-grown swallowtail flying. “Um, excuse me”, said Renee. “Can you help me?”
“Sorry, I can’t talk to strangers,” she said.
“But have you seen two swallowtails being caught?”
“Oh, yeah, I saw a boy named Harry who loves bugs. He’s a killing machine, I tell you. He may kill those two.”
“By the way, I’m Emily, what’s your name?”
“Renee.”
“Well, c’mon, Renee. I’d like you to meet a couple of friends.”
So they met Heffie the horsefly, May the Maybeetle, Brad the bumblebee, and Walter the walkingstick. No, they never made fun of Renee’s weight.
Together they went on a long quest to save Renee’s parents.
They had to survive many hardships. Once Walter was stuck in the mud and left behind. Then May got captured and they had to save her, and then it rained and they had to find shelter.
Finally, one night they made it to Harry’s house. Harry was sound asleep. On a table beside his bed was a cage. It held Renee’s parents.
“Quick!” cried Emily. “Let’s get them out.”
They got them out.
“Renee!” Her mother seemed surprised. “Is that you?” “What’re these other insects doing here?” asked Renee’s father.
“These are my friends”, said Renee happily.
Her parents were really proud of her making friends for the first time.
They went back home, accompanied by Renee’s friends. Renee became so popular that in no time she turned into a beautiful swallowtail and she didn’t eat too much.
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ORDER ISOPTERA
TERMITES
by
Alex
The worst and almost the last day of my life, which isn’t very long, all started when the King and Queen went out to eat. The rest of the colony was left with work. Of course, if anything really had happened we wouldn’t know what to do. Suddenly we felt rumbling and saw a giant shadow. The giant crushed our tall hard mounds and I ran for my life. I wasn’t stupid enough to attack. I was wondering what I was going to tell Mom and Dad. I was hiding under a leaf when they came back. They saw me and I told them everything. They thought I way lying and blamed it on me. And bugs say you should tell the truth.
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FAMILY PENTATOMIDAE
THE STINK BUGS
by
George Bennett
Fire!! Boom kakaboom!! July 6, 1944 in Normandy. The ships were coming and the Germans were surprised! When I jumped out on the beach, I saw 14 small balls. So I grasped them and started to run. But all of a sudden I saw two machine guns shooting right at me. The first thing I thought of was to load my M-1 but instead I put the balls in it and I shot like mad and when I faced all of them they stopped. And then all of a sudden the Germans had their hands up on their heads and walked down the hill. Finally I saw that they were walking down it to 14 tiny stink bugs. Then after the war they were awarded nine medals and when Elk asked them where they were going next and they said, “To Florida.” We stink.
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FAMILY COREIDAT
THE SQUASH BUGS AND LEAF-LEGGED BUGS
HERMAN’S TRILOGY
By
Savannah Duckworth
Once upon a time, there was a very uncommon pretty squash bug that was pink. Actually, he was a Tropical Squash Bug. Naturally he had much more fun than the other brown and black bugs. This bug, Herman, had one problem. He loved to “eat marshmallows.” Now, if my only problem was an addiction to marshmallows, I would be doing great, but I am no insect. Herman’s problem was concerning his mouth. He just had braces on his piercing-sucking mouth and therefore eating marshmallows became problematic. Herman could now pierce the marshmallow but sucking it up was another story. His braces were painful when he started to suck the marshmallow. One day, Herman asked his friend Spot the Stink Bug what he thought would help with the “marshmallow problem.” Spot decided Herman should stomp on the marshmallows and then suck it up! Spot and Herman started stomping just like on an episode of “I Love Lucy” when Lucy had to stomp grapes. The friends stomped for 13 minutes and then Herman tried to suck up the marshmallow. It didn’t work mainly because marshmallows are sticky with or without being stomped. Even though Herman had to cease eating marshmallows with his braces, Spot and Herman decided to go and drink some pineapple juice. They lived off of pineapple juice until the day Herman’s braces were removed and the Herman the Pink Tropical Squash Bug and Spot the Stink Bug ate marshmallows and lived happily ever after until I caught them and put them in my collection.
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