The outdoor camp has not organized activities for a long time. Next Monday the nature education teacher will organize a night viewing activity, and we will visit it first on Sunday night.

Night observation, as the name suggests, means observing at night. What is observed?

Observe the small insects at night, some activities of small animals, and the different states of plants.

This time it was a spotting activity. I thought my son would stay at home all day and wanted him to go outside more often, so I made an appointment with another mother. The two mothers and their kids accompanied the nature education teacher for a spotting tour at night.

At 7:30 in the evening, the woods next to Baiyangqiao Food City were already dark. Maybe it was not managed well. There were lights in the woods, but they were not turned on. The entire greenery also looked deserted. It must have been that no one had taken care of it for a long time. This is exactly what happened.

The best choice for night viewing, with fewer artificial traces, there will be more birds and insects.

The three adults and two children were walking in the dark woods with flashlights, feeling a little scared.

But I am also very curious, what will we encounter on a night like this?

After walking along the stone road for a short distance, I saw a small black shadow on the tree trunks on the roadside, wow!

It was four black-shelled beetles having a party. They ran away as soon as they were illuminated by our flashlight. I am curious what you are talking about?

Let’s talk about what we’ve experienced during the day, or gossip about family affairs. A beam of light disturbed all this beauty.

Darlings, we just wanted to take a look at you, we didn’t expect to disturb you, I’m sorry!

Let's move forward. What's on the branch?

The sharp-eyed child made a new discovery: a bird stood very quietly on a thin branch, motionless.

At first we didn't dare to shine our flashlight on it, fearing that it would fly away. We looked at each other quietly with no intention of flying away. Slowly, we raised our flashlight and shined it towards it, wanting to take a good look at the bird.

Son.

It stood quietly on the branch, curled up, and turned to look at us, with a trace of doubt and a little bit of alertness in its eyes.

The children said hello to the bird and took pictures of it. It was still standing there quietly. It was probably going to sleep at night.

The cars on the elevated highway not far away rumbled past, seemingly not having the slightest impact on him.

Maybe this is how I feel at peace, so what does the world’s turmoil have to do with me!

Continuing to walk forward, I saw a lot of knotted grass, with things like small flowers on them. I picked up a small dead branch and touched it. It bounced away with a "porphyry". The nature teacher said something very special.

I didn’t remember the professional term at all. I only remembered that it was called “Tutu Insect”. This name is so appropriate. It looks like a tutu.

Use a dead branch to lift it up, and it will jump away. This jumping ability is definitely the best in the high jump world.

Children, stop disturbing them!

We withdrew and gave you a peaceful world.

"Come here, come here!" I heard the nature education teacher's excited voice.

There was a mantis that was shedding its shell. We gathered around to see that mantis, watching him take out the last part of his body from the shell. It was a little wet, making the green all over its body very bright and bright, with that

Feeling the joy of new life, it quickly crawled to the side.

Before this moment, it had experienced what kind of pain and struggle before it could escape from the shell that bound it. The desire to regain a new life defeated that pain and struggle.

The yearning for survival is engraved in their genes, and so are we. Think about the tearing pain and struggle when a child is born, how difficult it is. That’s because we all feel that this world is worth it.

Going forward, what is that?

A dragonfly hangs upside down on the leaves, very, very quiet, like a plane parked at the airport.

Its wings are thin and transparent, and it just stays there quietly. We shine it with a flashlight, and it doesn’t move at all. The children say that the dragonfly is asleep, and I think it must be. I have slept peacefully, and the world has also slept peacefully.

went!

I continued walking along the stone road and found a jujube tree with jujubes on it. As I walked further, jujube trees appeared one after another in the circle of light. It was estimated that there were more than 10 trees. Many jujube trees were covered with fruit.

It was full of densely packed dates. Under the light of the flashlight, the dates were shiny and green. I really wanted to pick one and try it. We said that the theme of the next activity was to pick dates (hahaha...), and the children were all excited.

Very happy.

Hey hey, what's that?

On the treetop, there is a super big caterpillar. It is slowly twisting its fat body, and the leaves are feeding it fat.

It is eating and drinking to its heart's content, working hard to grow, and then turns into a butterfly, rushing to a new life cycle and completing a new mission.

come on!

Big caterpillar, I hope you will one day turn into a butterfly and fly freely in the sky.

This may sound unfair to the tree, but so what!

Nature is the most magical hand. It gives each species a mission. The mission of the leaves that are eaten is to become part of the body of the caterpillar, and finally, together with it, it will pupate into a butterfly and fly freely!

During more than two hours of night viewing, we encountered toads, frogs, mantises, crabs, snails, ridged green elephants, small katydids, numerous spiders, beetles, ants, various moths, and grasshopper butterflies.

By the way, there are also the cicadas that we are most familiar with. The children did not dare to touch them at first. Later, they saw the cicadas staying quietly in Teacher Li’s hands, which was quite gentle, so they tried to put the cicadas in the hands of Teacher Li.

By touching its body and wings with his own hands, the child slowly let down his guard and tried to make contact with the insect.