Peffer Creepy Creatures Speaking parts Branyan Nichols Kyle Faught Jahnavi Upadhyay_ Good evening and welcome to our program called Creepy Creatures. Please make sure your phones are on silent and do not walk around during the performance. These noises are disturbing to us and make it difficult for us to concentrate on our performance. Thank you. As we sing each song there will be pictures of the creatures we are singing about on the screen. Creepy Creatures Matthew Humeson _Madeline Kalal Hannah Sifford Miranda Fleischer _John Ritchey Bumblebees are very social insects, easily recognized by their soft, striped black and yellow body hairs. Bumblebee nests are constructed at first by their queen. She may select an existing underground hole or build a nest of wax right on the ground or in grasses. Then the worker bees take over while the queen gets busy laying eggs. Bumblebees collect pollen on their body while collecting nectar for food. They are important pollinators of crops and wildflowers. Bumblebees can sting more than once, but generally only sting in defense of their nests.
James Bland-Register_ The buzzing sound you hear is not caused by the beating of their wings.. It s actually the sound of the bumblebee s flight muscles vibrating like a rubber band. The Bumblebee Ryan Gruber Tyler Mongalier Earthworms are invertebrates, meaning they have no skeletal backbone. Earthworms do many things to help the earth, including conditioning, aerating, and enriching the soil. David Santee Earthworms are decomposers, eating up dead plants and animals, then returning nutrients to the soil. Cecilia Till Earthworm, Earthworm Zachary Whelan Ava Scardelletti Dehlia Radcliffe Caroline Muniak Jamie Vo Earthworms are thought to have been around for millions of years. They don t have eyes, but can sense light. They don t have a brain, but have nerve centers. A mouse is a small mammal, primarily a nocturnal animal (meaning it is active at night). It has very poor eyesight, but a keen sense of hearing. A mouse has an especially reliable sense of smell, helping it to find food and avoid predators. Mice make a good dinner for foxes, cats, snakes, and large birds such as hawks and eagles. Mice are often used as experimental animals in biology because they are mammals and, as a result, share common genetic traits with humans. Eek! A Mouse!
Nolan Wickes _Summer Beaudoin Taylor Janovyak Cody Stitts Bats are flying mammals. There are over 1,000 species of them around the world, many of which are endangered. The best thing about bats is that they eat several hundred insects each night. They are actually able to consume one third of their body weight in bugs each night! They like eating mosquitoes, moths, and grasshoppers, bugs that often destroy crops and spread diseases. Tristan Zoltowski _ Clymire Brianna Boyd _Maxx Dickinson* _Donovan Walla Goin Batty Bat poop (also known as guano ) is extremely rich in nutrients, so it is used by farmers to fertilize their crops. Some bats hibernate certain times of year. In order to do this, they must eat as much food as their body can contain. Most bats are nocturnal, most active at twilight. As a result, bats help with the pollination of some flowers that only bloom at night! Bats make sounds that echo off of the ground or off the sides of their caves, helping them to know where they are. They rarely fly in the rain, as rain interferes with their echo reflection. _Samantha Jackson Christian Solderitsch Hailey Raitz Stingrays are primarily found in coastal tropical waters throughout the world. They especially enjoy feeding among the coral reefs. A stingray s tail has a stinger on the end, which is used exclusively in self-defense. Because they have such flat bodies, stingrays are able to effectively conceal themselves by agitating the sand at the bottom of the ocean and hiding underneath it.
John Chakan Sydney Kowell I Sing About the Stingray Emily Monza Devin Douglas Collette McElroy _Gabrielle Reck _Emma Volle Justin Dhanraj A stingray s mouth is on the bottom of its body while its eyes are on the top, so it can t see its prey! Luckily, a stingray has a pretty good sense of smell. Stingrays are known for their almost ballet-like movement and large sweeping wings that propel them quickly through the water. Skunks are mammals known primarily for their ability to emit a strong, foul-smelling scent. This is part of their defense system, as the odor is strong enough to keep bears and other attackers away. All skunks are striped from birth, though they come in several colors. Some even have stripes on their legs! Skunks are omnivores, meaning that they eat both plants and animals. Actually, they change their diet as the seasons change. There aren t many animals who can eat a honeybee. A skunk can! Its thick fur protects it from stings. A skunk will scratch at the front of a hive and eat the bees that come out to investigate! Mama skunks teach this skill to their young babies, known as kits. I Thunk I Saw a Skunk _Amber Beaudoin David Bowman Addison Sponseller Kaden Paserk Lizards are a large group of reptiles that live on every continent except Antarctica. Most lizards have limbs, external ears, and moveable eyelids with fairly well-developed color vision. Many of them are able to detach their tails in order to escape from their predators. Chameleons are known for being able to change the color of their skin, depending on their surroundings.
Jayce Dye Bret Samay _Andrew Schuller Male anoles are known for the bright pink extension that comes out from their neck, attracting a female! In Australia, the blue-tongued skink uses its colorful tongue to hiss and scare off predators. There are literally thousands of species of lizards, many having curious individual traits such as these. Some even make great pets! Leapin Lizards! _ Emmie Dautel Melody Haddix _Darian Burkett Miller Emma Hovanec O Porcupine _Grace Bajerski* _Sarah Fisher Luke Petty _Mikayla Swanson Porcupines are rodents, known for their coat of sharp quills or spines. These quills are a great defense. They are released when something comes in contact with them. And new ones grow back to replace any that are lost! A porcupine can t throw its quills at an attacker. It can shake its body, which may cause a quill to drop out. The porcupine is a herbivore, meaning it eats leaves, twigs, and plants. In the winter, it may also eat the bark of a tree. Snakes are reptiles. They don t have eyelids or external ears. They find food through their sense of smell. They use their tongues to collect particles from the air, then pass those particles to an organ in their mouth. Their skin is covered in scales, giving it a smooth, dry texture. These scales can grip any surface, helping them to travel quickly. Snakes are carnivorous animals, meaning flesh-eating. They have very flexible jaws that are not attached, allowing them to open their mouths really wide.
Vincent Suboyu Snakes like eating small animals like lizards, birds, fish, and snails. They also eat eggs. Snakes must swallow their prey whole because a snake can t chew! _Ethan Oberg Snakes shed their skin- some once a year, some up to four times a year. The snake literally crawls out of its old skin. This is called moulting, and looks like a sock being turned inside out. S is for Snake Allesandra Galvan Erica Monza Morgan Hoffner Brandan Smith Briannah Kaczmarski _Jacob Palcisko _Ashley Drexler Carlos Flores Kristopher McGreehan There are thousands of different kinds of spiders. They come in all shapes and sizes, some fuzzy and some smooth, in lots of different colors. They live where it s wet, where it s dry, where it s hot, where it s cold everywhere but in Antarctica. All spiders have eight legs, four on either side. Most have four pairs of eyes on the top and front area of their heads. Their primary eyes are in front, while secondary eyes (which detect light) are located on the sides. Their blood is blue, yes, blue. Many spiders are colored so they are camouflaged by their surroundings. Spiders don t have ears. Instead they feel sounds vibrating with tiny hairs on their legs. Spiders have spinneret glands that release silk to weave their webs. They first form a Y-shaped base, then fill in the radials to make the web. They have the ability to release both a sticky version and a non-sticky version of their threads, in order to easily move around during construction. Then they sit by and wait for their prey to get stuck!
Theodore Tyburski Jodie Hellickson Tarak Doshi James Snider _ Slugs are fascinating creatures. They come in various colors. Most lack a shell, though some have a very small shell and others have a small internal shell. This is how they differ from snails, who carry around a coiled shell in which they can hide There are slugs that exist on land and some that live in the sea. Most slugs have two sets of tentacles or feelers on their head. The upper pair sense light and the lower pair senses smell. These tentacles are retractable and will grow back if they are lost. Ugh! A Slug! _Aleah Wolfe Slugs are known for their slime, which is actually mucus produced in order to help them move and prevent them from slipping. It also makes it hard for a predator to pick one up for lunch! John Paroda Also, a slug s slime trail gives them a chance to find each other! Slugs help us by eating fungus, dead leaves, and other decaying materials on the ground. Clymire _Andrew Schuller We hope that you learned some new information this evening about Creepy Creatures! Thank you for coming! Creepy Creatures