Photos of insect and bug life

The children had another session taking photos of insect and bug life in our fields of gold!

Bug Café

Local building firm, Taieri Beach School, has started construction of the Bug City Café.


It was important to ensure the nectar drinks on offer appealed to a wide variety of  bugs and insects.

Property Consultant, Gordon Thompson, aka Inspector Insector from Earthlore Wildlife Gardens, designed the Bug City signs and the café furniture.

The children learnt a lot about soil preparation, planting the Alyssum plants with care so the roots are not damaged  and watering the transplanted plants so they will survive the heat. 

  

 

Construction of Bug City: Stage One

The construction of Bug City is underway. 

It is important to make the street names relevant to the surroundings.

The Bug City Cafe with a large selection of nectar drinks is nearly ready to open to the public.

Kowhai seedlings

Mrs Stoff and the children found lots of kowhai seedlings underneath our beautiful kowhai tree. They have transplanted them into pots and will tend for them so they can sell them at the Jumble Sale. 

Construction Sets

Great effort boys!

Insect life in the swimming pool

The children were intrigued to find this moth and ladybug in the swimming pool recently. They wondered how did they get there and what food would they eat in our covered swimming pool area. 

Photos of bugs

The children found it was not that easy to get photographs of bugs especially as the bugs wouldn't stay still for long.

Getting creative with plasticene

Teamwork

Working together as a team to sort out the tent for play and schoolwork.

Fun in the Taieri Beach Swimming Pool

We are having lots of fun in the Taieri Beach Swimming Pool.
Thanks to Linda for the great job she does as pool attendant.

Resource Consent Approved for Bug City

Success! We have got a resource consent for our Bug City Development.

Morgan from the Clutha District Council helped us fill in the application form and draw the site plan. 

We are all ready for construction!

Getting ready for site inspection

All hands on deck getting ready for our site inspection on Thursday afternoon!

Text and Photos: Gloria

Exciting news regarding our Bug City Development

Morgan Ramsay (Resource Consent Manager from the Clutha District Council) is coming this Thursday for a site visit of our proposed Bug City. She will help us apply for a resource consent. 
We will keep your posted on developments.
Text: Gloria 
Photo: Gordon

Learning from nature

We saw an Australasian Harrier Hawk flying in a strong wind the other day. As we watched, a strong gust of wind blew the hawk backwards. At first the hawk beat his wings furiously trying to make headway but to no avail. Then he stopped and waited for the gust of wind to die down, before he used his wings to propel forward. When the next gust of wind came, he let the power of the wind push him backwards.  Then as the wind receded he started flapping his wings again, flying forwards.

What a great visual lesson for the children about working with nature, not against nature. 

Text and photos: Gloria