Not too long ago I went to an Iowa pumpkin patch.  It was so much fun there and I got to do lots of different things.   I went through the corn maze a few times.  I even picked some of the corn off the stalk!  I brought home a bunch of it and took it outside.   I decided that I could help the animals out with hibernation so I started putting pieces of corn outside of their holes in the ground.  I'm pretty sure that badgers live there but we haven't seen one yet.  I hope that I do see one someday, although I hear that they have very sharp teeth!!

I Love Nature!

Hi!  My name is Libby.  I love nature and being outdoors.  I live in Nebraska.  There are lots of beautiful plants, animals, and fields to look at.  Once I was at the park and found a cocoon trapped in a spiderweb.  I decided to take the cocoon home and leave the spiderweb behind.  When I got the cocoon home, I put it in my butterfly cage.  My dad helped me hang the cocoon by a string onto a stick.   Two nights later, the cocoon opened!  When I woke up, I went downstairs and saw...a beautiful monarch butterfly drying it's wings out.  We researched monarch butterflies on the internet and found out that they like honey water and rotten fruit.  I also found out that they taste with their feet and that the monarch that I found was a female!  Me and my dad made a butterfly buffet and put it at the bottom of the butterfly cage.  Not long after we put it there, my butterfly flew down for the first time.  She started tasting with her feet.  Then she put her long proboscis right into the rotten fruit and started eating.  Not long after, she put her proboscis into the honey water.  Although I loved my butterfly, I knew that butterfly migration was coming up.  We put a tracking sticker on her wing with a toothpick and gently slipped the toothpick off.  Finally we went outside and let her go.  She traveled right towards Mexico.  I hoped that she would find a husband and lay eggs!   Maybe one or all of her children will make it here to Nebraska.  I can't be sure but I hope that they can all make it.