We all remember in math class when the dreaded math statements were introduced....true or false... All spiders are arachnids, therefore all arachnids are spiders.  I initially said, oh, yep, so true as my son was pressing through his homework.  He looks up and says, false, and I naturally look up from my Amazon Kindle and ask why is it false?  He then, follows with the question, is a scorpion a spider?  No, of course not, I reply and he says its an arachnid.  I sit corrected.  My mind was wrapped up with all these little facts.  Today, my boys started their insect collection for science class.  Oh, stunning, or finding an insect on the ground to pin it to a piece of styrofoam, gives me the heebie jeevies.  The boys have collected several specimens already and love that mom is staying an arms length away from their discoveries.  What happened to leaf collections or maybe a model of the solar system, but bugs....oooo....yuck...blech...I so do not do insects. 

There are bugs in jars, I don't recognize....and they are flipping through books, and online looking for the names.  They couldn't push a pin through the stink bug...so I gorilla glued it to the styrofoam...there's no way, I am sticking anything through that body....what if it has a stink sac?  I don't know....I don't want to smell like a stink bomb...though my kids would find it quite amusing.