Latest / Children's Hour / 6.21.25 - Part 1
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radio Ice Children Story Hour. As
- 0:05a reminder, RAO is a reading service intent of for
- 0:08people who are blind or have other disabilities that make
- 0:11it difficult to read print material. Today we will be
- 0:14reading from various books on bees. Your reader today is Dyane.
- 0:20Our first story is called FIA's Bees E's. It was
- 0:25published by shift Or Publishing as a copyright year of
- 0:31twenty nineteen and the author is Catherine Pryor. Beatrix heard
- 0:38a humming as she walked through the park on her
- 0:40way home from school. She followed the sound to hollow
- 0:43oak tree. A cloud of wild bumblebees flew in and
- 0:47out of a hidden beehive like it was the world's
- 0:49busiest airport. Bea crept closer. The bees flew zigzags and
- 0:56crazy eggs. They hovered and dove. They zipped out fasp
- 1:00but flew home slowly, their tiny bodies way down with
- 1:03pollen and nectar. Bea visited the hide every day. She
- 1:07watched the bees slit from flower to flower, buzzn't with
- 1:11happiness as they collected food for their families. Then one
- 1:15day the tree was silent. A lonely butterfly circled the
- 1:19oak tree looking for its friends. Its friends were gone.
- 1:23The next day at school, Bea told her teacher what happened?
- 1:26Where did my bees go? She asked, I don't know.
- 1:30Her teacher sighed, sometimes bees just disappear. Bia didn't like
- 1:35that one bit. How could a whole hive disappear? The
- 1:40park was quiet. As she walked home. Bea looked toward
- 1:43the oak tree, but even the butterfly was gone. Then
- 1:46Bia noticed something else. The flowers around the oak tree
- 1:49had been cut down. Bee tricks. Knew that bees like flowers.
- 1:56It is how they got all their foods. The next time,
- 2:00the as class went to the library, be a rush
- 2:02for the librarian. What type of flowers to bees like?
- 2:06I don't know? The librarian said, let's find out. Bea
- 2:11read everything she could about bees. She learned that they
- 2:14liked to eat pollen and nectar from lots of different flowers,
- 2:18and that they need a loss of open space to
- 2:20find them. Bia also learned that bees are a type
- 2:23of pollinator, which means that they carry pollen from flower
- 2:27to flower. Without bees, blueberry, raspberry, and pumpkin plants would
- 2:32not be able to turn their flowers into fruit. There
- 2:35would be no more apples or almonds or avocados. Without bees,
- 2:39some of Beetrick's favored foods would disappear. Bea began to
- 2:44make a plant. In the early wet days of spring.
- 2:47Be A planted wildflower seeds around the base of her tree.
- 2:51She planted mint and clover and sunflowers. The seedlings began
- 2:56to sprout, the flowers began to bloom. A tree stayed silent.
- 3:02Bia did her science fair project on bees. She handed
- 3:06out wildflower seeds to everyone at school and asked them
- 3:09to help feed the bees all over the neighborhood. Their
- 3:13seedlings sprouted, their flowers bloomed. Still, the tree was silent.
- 3:20The tricks began to lose hope. She sat by her
- 3:22tree and cried sad tears at the thought of losing
- 3:25her bees forever. Then she heard it. A single mumblebee
- 3:30buzz passed, landing on one of the sunflowers. She saw
- 3:34another and another bee flew out of the nest in
- 3:37the ground near the hollow oak tree. They hovered and dove,
- 3:42They flew zigzags and crazy eggs. They zipped out to
- 3:45find polin and nectar, then flew home, slow and fat
- 3:49to feed their family. BEA's bees were back, be a
- 3:55friend to bees. Our world would be very different without bees.
- 3:59They're about thousand species of bees. A small number of
- 4:02those bees make honey, but all bees help people in
- 4:05plants in important ways. As bees buzz from flower to
- 4:09flower in search of nectar and pollen, their legs and
- 4:12bodies collect pollen dust, carrying pollen to every other flower
- 4:16they visit, Some of the pollen rubs off on the
- 4:19flower stigmas. When this happens, fertilization can take place and
- 4:25a fruit can develop. A single bee can visit up
- 4:28to five thousand flowers in one day. Many of the
- 4:32foods we love need bees to turn their flowers into fruit.
- 4:35Bees help grow nuts like almonds and cashewes, as well
- 4:39as fruits like berries, apples, cherries, kiwis, mangoes, pears, peaches
- 4:44and melons. Pumpkins, tomatoes, and even chocolate all need bees. Unfortunately,
- 4:49bees are in danger. Some species of bees have been
- 4:52added to the endangered Species list, meaning that their numbers
- 4:56are becoming so low that they might just here. There
- 5:00are several reasons for this, the loss of open spaces
- 5:04for bees to find flowers, climate change, and the use
- 5:08of some chemical pesticides that can kill or confuse bees.
- 5:13The good news You can help plant pollinator gardens at
- 5:17Homer School. Ask your parents to buy food race without
- 5:20chemical pesticides, or grow some of your favorite foods yourself.
- 5:24Write a letter or email to your city council asking
- 5:27them to be in neo nica nintoids, a type of
- 5:31pesticide that hurts bees. These help us every day. We
- 5:35like bea can make our world a better place to
- 5:38be a bee. Our next book is called The Thing
- 5:44About These and it was published by Readers to Eaters,
- 5:49distributed by pub Publishers Group West has a copyright here
- 5:55of twenty nineteen and the author is Shabbaz Warkin. When
- 6:03a bee and a flower love each other very much,
- 6:05a fruit is born. One the flower makes a sticky
- 6:09yellow dust called pollen. Two, as the bee drinks the
- 6:14flower's nectar, she gets pollen all over our hairy body.
- 6:18Three the bee moves pollen from one flower to another. Four.
- 6:22Then we wait, five and wait, and six presto, the
- 6:28flower turns into fruit you can eat. Seven. This process
- 6:33is called pollination. We be hungry without the bees. They
- 6:38help vegetables and nuts grow too. Here's the thing about bees.
- 6:44Sometimes bees can be a bit rude. They fly in
- 6:48your face and prants on your food. They buzz in
- 6:50the bushes and buzz in your ear. They sneak up
- 6:53behind you and fill you with fear, and worst of all,
- 6:57they do this thing called sting ouch. We may want
- 7:02bees gone because they're steam herbs, but if they were
- 7:05all gone, it would hurt much worse. Without bees, there
- 7:10be no more picnics with watermelon, there being no more
- 7:13smoothies with mango, there be no more strawberries for shortcakes,
- 7:18and no more avocados for tacos. There be no apples,
- 7:21which means no more pie, no more cucumbers, which means
- 7:25no more pickles, no more blueberries and raspberries for pancakes,
- 7:29or sweet cherries to drizzle because some foods won't grow
- 7:33without bees to help them along. In a way, the
- 7:36bees are just like you. You you buzz in the
- 7:40bushes and buzz in my ear. You sneak up behind
- 7:43me and fill me with fear. You fly in my
- 7:46face and prants on my food. You even steam when
- 7:49you're in a bad mood, But I never stop loving you.
- 7:54You're my sweet cherry, the apple pie of my eye.
- 7:57You're my cucumber pickle, my bumble in the sky. You're
- 8:01my cowatermelon and a picnic in the park. You're the
- 8:04avocados on my tacos. You're my strawberry heart. Without those
- 8:10little buzzers, the world wouldn't know what to do. That's
- 8:14the thing about bees. We need them just as much
- 8:18as we need you. Everything you need to know about
- 8:23how not to get stone A guide to bees and
- 8:28wasps from kind to kind of mean. Bumble bee, the
- 8:32friendliest of all bees, can sting, but usually ignores humans.
- 8:37Nest in the ground. Excellent pollinator, makes honey, but not
- 8:40nearly as much as honey bees. Very fuzzy, too big
- 8:44and blobbly for its tiny wings, but flies anyhow. Carpenter
- 8:49bee a big, harmless bee, rarely stings, makes nest in
- 8:54dead wood like an old logs or in your house.
- 8:57That's why they call it a carpenter bee. Great pollenase
- 9:00has a little furry shacket. A pollinator is anything like
- 9:05a bee, bird, butterfly, or bat that helps fruits and
- 9:08vegetables grow by spreading pollen from plant to plant. A
- 9:13honey bee, the world's best pollinator and pollen eater. Very friendly,
- 9:18can only steam once. Lives inside hollow trees or logs
- 9:22or in human built hives. Makes honey and then he
- 9:25eats it. Makes wax to build honeycombs for storing pollen.
- 9:30Honey and baby bees does a waggle dance to help
- 9:33hive makes find the good flowers. Mud Dauber, this little
- 9:38buzzer is not a bee, not aggressive, rarely stings, has
- 9:42a long, skinny body with almost no hair. Hunts spiders
- 9:46for dinner, most famous for its tube shaped nest made
- 9:50out of mud. Not a pollinator. Hornet the largest wasp,
- 9:56only aggressive when threatened. Steam herts the most ball wasp,
- 10:01and they can sting more than once a pollinator, but
- 10:05much less so than bees. Choose wood into a pulp
- 10:08to make paper nests. Loves to eat rotting fruit and
- 10:12other insects. Yellow jacket very aggressive when threatened, not very hairy.
- 10:18Also not a bee, but they do pollinate a bit.
- 10:22You see one walk away slowly, one stings you run
- 10:25away fast because others will follow. Hunt's garden pest making
- 10:30gardeners happy, eats meat and people food making picking pick nickers.
- 10:36Grumpy be safety and etiquette. Stay calm and host jill.
- 10:41If a bee comes around, avoid carrying ripe mangos or
- 10:45you will smell like bee dinner. Don't forget bees don't
- 10:50want to sting you. They are busy collecting pollen. Wear
- 10:54a hat if you don't like bees in your hair.
- 10:56Ignore bees in flight. They can't sting you if they
- 11:00are not on you. Never swat at bees. They will
- 11:03sting you if you do wear shoes. Some bees make
- 11:07nest in the ground. Tell an adult right away if
- 11:10a bee stings you. If you are still afraid of bees,
- 11:17you can wear a bee keeper suit because we are
- 11:20all bee keepers. But seriously, we need to love the pollinators.
- 11:25Do all you can to save the bees. Please. Our
- 11:30next of stories are about ladybugs and butterflies, and the
- 11:33first one is called zoom In on lady Bugs. It
- 11:38was published by in Slow Elementary and the imprint of
- 11:42Inslow publisher has copied right here of twenty fourteen and
- 11:47the author is Melissa Stuart's Ladybug Holmes. Have you ever
- 11:54seen a ladybug? They live in fields and woodlands all
- 11:57over the world, in places where the winters are cod
- 12:00They gather in large groups. They rest under rocks or
- 12:03rotting logs. Ladybug body ladybug is an insect. An insect
- 12:08has six legs and its body has three main parts.
- 12:12An insect's head is in the front, the thorax is
- 12:15in the middle, The abdomen is the part at the back.
- 12:19Ladybug eyes Can you see this? Ladybug's eyes They are black,
- 12:24so they blend in with its head. The two big
- 12:27eyes don't see very well. They can tell if it's
- 12:30day or night, but they can't see a clear picture
- 12:34of the world. Ladybug antenna. Ladybug has two short antenna
- 12:39on its head. They can smell prey. They can also
- 12:42feel in taste ladybug food. Some ladybugs munch on plants,
- 12:47but most eats small critters. They chow down on small insects, worms, mites,
- 12:52and more. Ladybug wings ladybug has two sets of wings.
- 12:57The hard outer wings protect the soft inner wings. When
- 13:00a ladybug is ready to fly, it lifts the outer wings.
- 13:04Then it spreads the inner wings and takes off the
- 13:08inner wings flat through the air. Ladybug legs. Ladybug has
- 13:12six legs. They are attached to the middle of its body.
- 13:16When an enemy attacks, a bad tasting jel oozes out
- 13:19of the ladybug's legs. Yuck. The gross scoop makes most
- 13:24attacked ors spit out their meal. Ladybug colors ladybug come
- 13:29in different colors. Many have red outer wings with black dots.
- 13:33The head and thorax are black with white spots. The
- 13:36insects bright colors send down a message. They say, stay away,
- 13:41I tastes bad. Ladybug larva. Does this ladybug larva look
- 13:46like its parents? No way. First it eats its eggshell,
- 13:51then it hunts for atfids and other prey. After about
- 13:55three weeks, the larva looks for a safe place. It
- 13:59sheds its skin and becomes a pupah the life cycle
- 14:04a ladybug begins life inside and egg. A larva eats
- 14:08and grows, eats and grows. The poopa can't move, but
- 14:13it is going through a lot of changes. Adult ladybugs
- 14:16can live up to nine months. Our next story is
- 14:22called Airplanes in the Garden mon Art Butterflies take Flights.
- 14:28It was published by Petio Publishing as a copyright eure
- 14:32of twenty eleven and the author is Joan z calder.
- 14:38Bonnie smiled as she snipped the perfume of the sweet peas.
- 14:42Tall grasses, waved and whispered in the breeze. With all
- 14:45the things in the family garden, she loved the orange
- 14:48and black monarch butterflies the best. What are you watching,
- 14:52Bonnie's mom asked, as she walked towards the flowers. Mom,
- 14:56there are airplanes in the garden. Bonnie said, there are? What,
- 15:00but her mom replied, surprised looking up at the sky airplanes.
- 15:05I make believe the butterflies are airplanes and the flowers
- 15:08are airports. Bonnie said, the butterfly airplanes pick up babies
- 15:13and moms and dads to take them on a trip,
- 15:15and ladybug flight attendants served she sandwiches to the passengers.
- 15:20What an imagination, her mom said, smiling. She gave Bonnie
- 15:25a hug. Do you know butterflies land on blossoms to
- 15:28drink nectar with their long tongues. Bonnie's mom asked, Oh,
- 15:33that's like when I use a straw to drink milk.
- 15:35Bonnie said, yes. And look at this, Bonnie, her mom said,
- 15:39pointing to a white dot to the underside of milkweed leaf.
- 15:43A MoMA monarch laid this egg. It will take about
- 15:46thirty days for the egg to change into a butterfly. First,
- 15:50the egg will hatch, then it will grow into a white,
- 15:53black and yellow striped catterpillar that looks like a little
- 15:56tiger with black wiggly tentacles on both ends. How funny,
- 16:01Bonnie giggled, And finally the caterpillar were turning to a
- 16:05beautiful orange of black butterfly. Her mother explained the changing
- 16:10from egg to a caterpillar to crysalus to butterfly is
- 16:14called complete metamorphous. Then a more fo what tried Bonnie?
- 16:20Then she looked in the milkweed plant and said, I'm
- 16:23going to call this the plant that grows butterflies. Each
- 16:27day Bonnie checked to see if the egg had turned
- 16:29into a caterpillar. Yet, four days later she saw something
- 16:32move on the plant that grows butterflies. Bonnie called Mom, Dad,
- 16:37look what I found. Bonnie's mom and dad hurried to
- 16:40find her in the garden, her nose almost touching the milkweed.
- 16:43A caterpillar so small she could barely see it wriggled
- 16:47on the leaf. Then she found another, and another, lots
- 16:51of tiny caterpillars covered the plant that grows butterflies. Hmm,
- 16:56Bonnie said, excitedly. I guess we will have lots of
- 16:59airplanes in our garden. For ten days, Bonnie watched her
- 17:03two favorite caterpillars grow bigger and bigger. You are Sergio,
- 17:07she named, the one with one short tentacle, And you
- 17:10are Stanley, she said, green at the larger caterpillar as
- 17:14he climbed up a leaf. Sergio and Stanley mowed down
- 17:17the edges of milk weed leaves the way Bonnie ate
- 17:21corn on the cob row after row. They ate so
- 17:25much that seen only a few ragged leaves were left
- 17:27on the plant. The next morning, when Bonnie went to
- 17:30check on Sergio and Stanley, she did not find them
- 17:33on the plant the girl's butterflies. She did not find
- 17:35them near her favorite rock or under the sweet peas.
- 17:39She searched under the big yellow flowers. No Sergio, no Stanley, Mom, Dad,
- 17:45Sergio and Stanley had disappeared, she said, sadly, I can't
- 17:49find them anywhere. All day, Bonnie wondered where Stanley and
- 17:54Sergio had gone. She sat near the mostly milkwood and
- 17:57wiped a tear from her cheek, and she looked down
- 18:00and saw a caterpillar making his way up the steps.
- 18:04Stanley is that you please be careful if you walk
- 18:06on the steps, you might get smooshed. She put her
- 18:09hand beside him, and Stanley crawled up. Bonnie laughed when
- 18:12she felt Stanley's six legs took ore hand. Thank you
- 18:16for being here. I love you. Bonnie put her hand
- 18:19next to the plant that gross butterflies, and Stanley walked
- 18:22onto the leaf. Stanley, you moved so fast. You must
- 18:25be training for your take offs and landings. Soon you'll
- 18:28have wings and be able to fly. Seventeen days after
- 18:32finding the monarch eggs, Bonnie saw a caterpillar hanging upside
- 18:36down from the flower pot outside her bedroom window. Wow,
- 18:39this must be Stanley. He looks like the letter j
- 18:43Bonnie told her mom dad, he came back to be
- 18:46close to me. By the next day, Bonnie and her
- 18:49day were looking at new Stanley. Stanley turned into chrystilics.
- 18:54Her dad said he had turned from a jay into
- 18:56a green bundle with docs. The blistening go is inside
- 19:01the crysselas rearranging himself to become a butterfly. A sturge
- 19:05Gyo somewhere rearranging himself too, Bonnie thought. Bonnie spent hours
- 19:10in front of the flower pot, watching the bright green
- 19:13of the brand new chryssellis turn into a beautiful blue
- 19:17green gem. Eight days later, she could hardly wait. It
- 19:21had been almost thirty days since her mom shouldered the
- 19:23eggs on the milkweed. Now she could see the orange
- 19:26and black butterfly wings through the shell of cryscellas. How
- 19:30would a butterfly's wings be stepped into such a small space,
- 19:34Bonnie wondered. She sat alone watching Something was happening inside
- 19:39the precious bundle. Seemed to be pushed, pulsing like a heartbeat.
- 19:44Then a crack appeared. Suddenly, Bonnie yelled, Mom, Dad, Stanley
- 19:50broke through the crystalis and is trying to get out.
- 19:53Her mom and dad arrived to see the newborn butterfly,
- 19:56all scrunched up clean to the tattered shell. Bonnie was worried, Mom,
- 20:01what's wrong with Stanley? Oh, Bonnie, it's all right. Stanley's
- 20:05pumping blood through his wings so they become wide and
- 20:08flat and strong, and then he can fly, her mom said.
- 20:12As Stanley was drying off his wings made small, silent
- 20:17flapping movements. Oh, Stanley, you're so beautiful, Bonnie coods. Then,
- 20:23after a long long time in the warm sunshine, Stanley
- 20:27took his first flight. Go Stanley, Go. Bonnie cheered and
- 20:31chased after him. Soon another monarch was flying next to Stanley.
- 20:36The two butterflies flew in circles around Bonnie. Sergio, Sergio,
- 20:40you came back to me with your friends, Stanley and me.
- 20:43Then Sergio and Stanley tested their landing skills on a
- 20:47group of zenias and sampled the nectar. Bonnie looked up,
- 20:51amazed at the flutter of orange and black wings flying
- 20:54toward her. Bonnie smiled up at the cloud of flapping wings.
- 20:58Now we have lots and lots of beautiful airplanes in
- 21:02my garden. Fall migration, monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains
- 21:08traveled to small groves of trees along the California coast.
- 21:12Those east of the Rocky Mountains fly farther south, perhaps
- 21:16one thousand, two hundred to two thousand, five hundred miles
- 21:20of the forest high in the mountains of Mexico. Some
- 21:23monarchs live in Florida and Texas. During winter, the monarch
- 21:27migration is driven by seasonal changes. Day length and temperature
- 21:31changes influenced the movement of the monarchs spring summer migration.
- 21:39The same butterflies that made the journey south and the
- 21:41fab will begin their return trip in March. The migrants
- 21:45fly to the southern US, where they mate and lay eggs.
- 21:48Their descendants will continue the migration north. By the time
- 21:52the monarchs arrived in the border of Canada and the US,
- 21:55they may be the great grandchildren of the original butterflies
- 21:59that left the previous spring. Learn about Stanley and Sergio.
- 22:05Butterflies are pollinators. The long tongue used to drink nectar
- 22:09is called prophossis a butterfly mist the symbol its probosis
- 22:14as soon as soon as it emerges from the chrysalis.
- 22:20Transforming from the egg to a butterfly is called a
- 22:22complete metamorphos Butterflies taste with their feet. Taste receptors on
- 22:27a butterfly's feet help it find its host plant and
- 22:30locate food. The fleshy antennas on each end of the
- 22:34monarch caterpillar are not actually antenna, but since organs, they're
- 22:39called filaments or tentacles. Males have a black spot on
- 22:43a vein on each hind wing. Females have thicker vein
- 22:46lines and no black spot on their hind wings. Monarchs
- 22:51can fly at the temperatures above sixty degrees fahrenheit and
- 22:55above fifty degrees fahrenheit. If it is sunny, the sun
- 22:58warms their flight muscles so they can fly. A butterfly
- 23:02will occasionally sit from mud puddles, which are rich in
- 23:05minerals and salts. This behavior is called puddling. Butterflies breathe
- 23:10through spiracles, tiny air tubes on the size of their
- 23:14bodies that carry air from the outside directly to body tissues.
- 23:21Plane a garden to help friends of Stanley and Sergio.
- 23:24The monarch migration is truly one of the world's greatest
- 23:28natural wonders. It is threatened by habitat loss in North
- 23:31America at the overwintering sites and throughout the spring and
- 23:35summer breeding range as well. You can create a paradise
- 23:38for butterflies by planting a garden of caterpillar host plants
- 23:43and nectar plants, and you will be contributing to monarch conservation.
- 23:49Monarch butterflies would cry or two types of foods. The
- 23:53caterpillar stage requires milkweed. Caterpillars eat the leaves. Botanical name
- 23:59for milk is old sclee pous. The butterfly stage requires nectar.
- 24:05Butterflies drink nectar with their probeicus. Choose a location in
- 24:11full sun. Monarchs require warmth to fly. Plants require sunlight
- 24:16to blossom. Herbicides and pesticides kill butterflies. Learn safe alternatives.
- 24:22Plant the milk weed where it will not be disturbed.
- 24:25The caterpillars like to wander to find the best place
- 24:28to make their crysalice. Plant milk weed in groups of
- 24:31two to four plants around the garden. Choose flowering shrubs
- 24:35native to your area to provide nectar. Check with your
- 24:38local nursery for suggestions of host and nectar plants that
- 24:43attract butterflies. Plant nectar plants near the milk weed. Select
- 24:48flowers that bloom at different times so your garden provides
- 24:51nectar from spring through autumn. Butterflies typically visit flowers that
- 24:55are bright and provide landing. Plant form nectar plants Astro marigo, Lantana,
- 25:04Xenia be bomb, Mexican sunflyer, Cosmos Verbina black eyed Susan,
- 25:11golden ride joe pieweed. Wild bergamot provide a water source.
- 25:17Butterflies like wet sand or mud to get minerals. Locate
- 25:21a seating area nearby to watch your new friends. This
- 25:27concludes the children's story I are for today. Please join
- 25:30us next time as we'll read more stories, fables and
- 25:33fairy tales. Thank you for listening and please stay change
- 25:36for the Lexton Herald Leader on RADIOI