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Backyard Bugs

Wildlife is all around us and there are many interesting creatures that can be found in your own backyard. Take a walk outside and explore using your senses of sight and sound and you will be surprised what you might find. This issue focuses on four types of backyard bugs: cicadas, fireflies, June bugs and pill bugs.
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  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
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  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
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  • taleofchipilo.com
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  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
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  • Exploring Nature
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  • Exploring Nature
American Alligator Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
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  • Exploring Nature
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Bird Inquiry – Read, Observe, Record
  • Exploring Nature
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  • Exploring Nature
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  • Exploring Nature
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  • Exploring Nature
Black-tailed Jackrabbit Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Black-tailed Jackrabbit Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
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  • Exploring Nature
Black-tailed Prairie Dog Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Black-tailed Prairie Dog Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
Black-tailed Prairie Dog Maze
  • Exploring Nature
Buck (Male Deer) Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Bumblebee Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Bumblebee Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
Burrowing Owl Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Burrowing Owl Coloring Page, Prairie
  • Exploring Nature
Burrowing Owl Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Butterflies (Monarch) Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Butterfly (Monarch) Life Cycle
  • Exploring Nature
Coyote Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Coyote Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Coyote Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
Crane (Whooping) Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Crane (Whooping) Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
Frog Life Cycle – Activity
  • Exploring Nature
Grasshopper Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Grasshopper Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Grasshopper Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
Gray Squirrel Connect-the-Dots Activity
  • Exploring Nature
Gray Squirrel Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Gray Squirrel Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
Green Jay Coloring Page
  • Super Coloring
Green Jay Coloring Page
  • David Sibley Coloring Sheets
Ground Squirrel (Thirteen-lined) Coloring
  • Exploring Nature
Ground Squirrel (Thirteen-lined) Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Ground Squirrel (Thirteen-lined) Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
High Plains Pop-up Craft Coloring Page
  • Texas Wildlife Association
Houston Toad Mask
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Maze – Baby Squirrel Rescue
  • Exploring Nature
Maze – What Does the Bat Eat?
  • Exploring Nature
Maze – What Does the Bumblebee Eat?
  • Exploring Nature
Maze – What Does the Deer Eat?
  • Exploring Nature
Ocelot Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Ocelot Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Opossum Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Opossum Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Opossum Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
Piney Woods Activities – Teachers and Parents Page
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Rattlesnake Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Rattlesnake Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Rattlesnake Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
Sea Turtle Drawing Lesson
  • Exploring Nature
Skunk (Spotted) Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Squirrel Tree Hidden Picture
  • Exploring Nature
Texas Habitats Coloring Pages (3): Hill Country, Panhandle, Pineywoods
  • Exploring Nature
Texas Habitats Labeling Pages (3): Hill Country, Panhandle and Prairie, Pineywoods
  • Exploring Nature
Texas Horned Lizard Coloring Page
  • Exploring Nature
Texas Horned Lizard Labeling Page
  • Exploring Nature
The Effect of Human Development on Sea Turtles – Authentic Performance
  • Exploring Nature
Warbler Drawing Lesson
White-tailed Deer Skull Diagram and Labeling
  • Exploring Nature
Adaptations of the Bumblebee
  • Exploring Nature
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
  • Exploring Nature
Black-tailed Prairie Dog Body Diagrams & Habitat Posters
  • Exploring Nature
Building a Pocket Prairie
  • Nature Prairies Association of Texas
Butterfly (Monarch)
  • Exploring Nature
Coyote
  • Exploring Nature
Coyote Tracks
  • Exploring Nature
Deer (White-Tailed)
  • Exploring Nature
Endangered Species of Texas Ecoregions
  • taleofchipilo.com
Gray Squirrel Tracks
  • Exploring Nature
Ground Squirrel (Thirteen-lined)
  • Exploring Nature
Making Windows Safer for Birds
  • Cornell Lab K-12 Education
Meadowlark (Eastern)
  • Exploring Nature
Native Plants of the South Texas Plains Ecoregion
  • Native Plant Society of Texas
North American Prairie
  • Exploring Nature
Opossum Info Page
  • Exploring Nature
Pecos and Staked Plains of the Texas Panhandle
  • Exploring Nature
Planting for Pollinators
  • Kids Gardening
Playa Lakes
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Pollinator Gardens Design Guide
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service
Skunk (Eastern Spotted)
  • Exploring Nature
Snake Essentials for Educators
  • Science Trek
Texas Horned Lizard Info Page
  • Exploring Nature
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrels Plus Arithmetic
  • Boulder County Nature Detective Kids Club
Which Texas Mussel Are You?
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Gould Ecoregions of Texas
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Great Texas Wildlife Trails
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Texas Coastal Bird Explorer
  • Audubon Texas
A Green Jay Survey
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Birding in the Brushlands
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Caddo Lake – Postcard From Texas
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Caprock Canyons State Park
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Cool Quail Facts
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Eastern Spotted Skunk
  • Leo the Wildlife Ranger Animal Diaries
From the Fire: A Legacy of Longleaf
  • The Nature Conservancy
Guadalupe Bass of Texas & More
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Houston Toad Conservation at Bastrop State Park
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
How to Recognize a Texas Tortoise
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Keep Texas Wild: Blackland Prairie
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Keep Texas Wild: Edwards Plateau
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Keep Texas Wild: Gulf Coast
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Keep Texas Wild: Piney Woods
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Keep Texas Wild: Southern Plains
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Land of 20,000 Lakes: The Texas High Plains
  • Panhandle PBS
Life Cycle of the World’s Most Seriously Endangered Sea Turtle: Kemp’s Ridley
  • PBS Learning Media for Teachers
Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Progress for Paddlefish
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Remarkable Rediscovery of Red Wolf DNA in the Wild
  • PBS Learning Media for Teachers
Rolling Plains Sunset – Postcard From Texas
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Saving the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
  • Texas A&M Forest Service
The Lost Pines – Postcard From Texas
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker – At Home in an Urban Forest
  • Texas A&M Forest Service
The Texas Coast: A Critical Environment for Migratory Birds
  • PBS Learning Media for Teachers
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Backyard Bugs

Wildlife is all around us and there are many interesting creatures that can be found in your own backyard. Take a walk outside and explore using your senses of sight and sound and you will be surprised what you might find. This issue focuses on four types of backyard bugs: cicadas, fireflies, June bugs and pill bugs.
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