Donna Young

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The photographs here show the life of Lady Beetles - Coleoptera: Coccinellidae. If you see any of the bugs that are pictured above and below in your trees, bushes, or plants, please do not kill them. Ladybugs are good bugs. They eat aphids.
 
— Aphid Lion (lady beetle larva) —
The first picture is the ladybug larva. [...]

Weather.com predicts rain.

The pine cone agrees.

Pine cones close when the air becomes moist to protect the seeds.

Dr. Wile has published a second edition of his general science curriculum. Several people emailed me to ask about the second edition and the general science schedules.
This update is to announce that I have made a schedule for this new book that is based on the newest first edition schedule. I also updated the general [...]

Today I had flowers on my mind. If my digital camera worked with batteries, this post would have looked different. I would have posted a few images of the wild flowers, aka, weeds that are blooming in my yard. I collected a few flowers to press.
I did not press any dandelions. Dandelions are usually the [...]

My son used Exploring Creation with Physical Science during the year 2000-2001. The images on this page show what we did with experiment 9.1. If you want to read more about experiment 9.1, please see Michelle’s blog. She is blogging about her co-op class.
Experiment 9.1
First we did the experiment like we were supposed to and [...]