Amazing Story To Learn English Learn English Through Story Level 3

chapter one

millie beasts

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a mini beast is a small animal with no

backbone it’s an invertebrate

there are many different types of mini

beast

scientists put them into different

groups

the biggest group is the arthropods

arthropods have six or more legs

some arthropods are insects

insects have six legs

there are more than one million types of

insect

some examples are bees beetles ants

flies and grasshoppers

some arthropods are arachnids

arachnids have eight legs

scorpions and spiders are arachnids

some arthropods are myriopods

they have lots of legs

centipedes and millipedes are myriapods

centipedes have two legs on each body

section

millipedes have four legs on each body

section

some many beasts don’t have legs

snails and slugs don’t have legs

they are mollusks

earthworms and leeches don’t have legs

their bodies have lots of sections

they are annelids

which many beasts do you know

chapter 2

insect bodies

most insect bodies have three parts a

head a thorax and an abdomen

the head has eyes and a mouth

the thorax has legs and wings

insects don’t have any bones but they

have a hard cover

this hard cover is called an exoskeleton

insects grow but their exoskeleton can’t

grow

when an exoskeleton is too small it

comes off

then the insect grows a new bigger

exoskeleton

insects can use their bodies to hide

from birds and other animals

they don’t want the other animals to eat

them this is called camouflage

some insects have bright colors

animals don’t eat any insect that is

black white and red

it isn’t usually good to eat

sometimes it’s poisonous

chapter 3

insect senses

most insects have two very big eyes

they can’t see clearly but they can see

things move very well

some insects have extra eyes that can

only see light and dark

some many beasts have antennae on their

head

they use their antennae to feel and

touch things

they can also smell food and other mini

beasts with their antennae

butterflies have a very long tongue

called a proboscis

they use their tongue to taste and drink

nectar in flowers

butterflies can also taste with their

feet

most insects don’t have ears on their

head

do you know where they are

they have ears on their body or their

legs

crickets have ears on their front legs

chapter 4

communication

most male and female mini beasts

communicate with each other because they

need to make new baby mini beasts

some many beasts communicate with sound

grasshoppers can sing

they move their legs up and down to make

a singing sound

some many beasts communicate with smell

the female moth makes strong smells

called pheromones

the male moth can smell the female with

its antennae

the male emperor moth can smell a female

10 kilometers away

some mini beasts communicate with light

fireflies can make light with their

abdomen

male and female fireflies flash their

lights to each other

some many beasts communicate to give

each other information

bees dance to tell other bees where

there is food

ants touch each other’s antennae your

head to give information about food or

danger

chapter 5

baby mini beasts

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most baby mini beasts come from eggs

some mini beasts like slugs and

earthworms lay their eggs in soil

other mini beasts like butterflies and

beetles lay their eggs on plants

scorpions don’t lay eggs

they have live babies

the baby scorpions travel on their

mother’s back

the babies of some flying insects look

like their parents but they don’t have

any wings

baby grasshoppers don’t have any wings

they grow wings when they get bigger

some babies are larvae

beetle butterfly and bee babies are

larvae

after a few weeks they become puppy

then they become insects with wings like

their parents

chapter 6

working insects

some insects work together in groups

leafcutter ants work together

first they find leaves

they carry the leaves to their nest

fungus grows from the leaves and then

the ants eat the fungus

leafcutter ants are very strong

they can carry leaves that are about 50

times heavier than their bodies

honeybees work together too

one queen bee lays all the eggs

then the female worker bees care for the

bee larvae

they look for food they make honey from

nectar and they give honey to the bee

larvae

they keep the honey and honeycombs

inside the hive

the worker bees also clean the hive

chapter 7

mini beast homes

some mini beasts like earthworms and

ants live underground and others live in

water

dragonflies lay their eggs on leaves in

the water

their larvae live underwater

snails carry their home on their back

they live in many different places

land snails live in deserts mountains

forests and gardens

marine snails live in the ocean

lots of mini beasts make nests

some wasps make nests from wasp paper

they make the paper from wood and saliva

the queen wasp lays eggs in the nest the

nest has lots of small rooms for the

wasp larvae

wasps attack other animals to protect

their nest

a wasp nest can have about 10 000 wasps

inside

chapter eight

spiders

spiders have two body parts and eight

legs

they have six or eight eyes

all spiders can make silk some spiders

use the silk to make webs

insects fly into the web

then the spider eats the insects

some spiders hunt

the wolf spider hides in leaves

then it jumps out and catches insects

mice and frogs

a spider can only eat liquid food

it bites an animal with a poison that

makes the animal liquid inside

then the spider drinks the liquid

female spiders are often much bigger

than male spiders

the golden orb female spider can have a

body up to 10 times bigger than the male

chapter 9

problems with many beasts

some many beasts can sting

the part that can sting is called a

stinger

a wasp and an ant can sting again and

again

a bee can only sting once

then it dies

other mini beasts can bite

some spiders have a poisonous bite and

other animals can die from this poison

a person can die from the bite of a

black widow spider

only female mosquitoes bite

many beasts can also make people sick

they can bite people and give them

diseases mosquitoes can give people a

very bad disease called malaria

some mini beasts make problems for

farmers

locusts are a type of grasshopper

they eat a lot of food crops