Thought I'd get your attention with that title. Before we left for EPCOT Kristen tells her Daddy. Please make sure you take care of my mealworm and snail for me. I thought to myself only our little girl would have a mealworm and a snail for a pet. We don't ever have ordinary pets around here. She has been begging me for a bearded dragon ever since she saw Nim's Island. When I told her we can't get one because they are a lot of money she seemed satisfied.
The mealworm is really the larval stage of a black beetle called the Tenebrio beetle.Beetles can be a lot like butterflies. They have a larval stage, a pupal stage, and an adult stage. In butterflies we usually call those stages "caterpillar," "chrysalis," and "butterfly." In beetles we usually call them "grub" (or larva), "pupa" and "beetle." So after a year or two as a mealworm, the mealworm will form a pupa and after a few weeks will emerge as an adult beetle. Marvelous huh?!
Kristen has two snails and when we got back from EPCOT I convinced her to let them go. So we put the cage out back. About a week later a snail was on our back step trying to get in our door. She is convinced that he liked it so much inside our house he wanted to come back and live. So here he is in his new habitat.
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