 Hi, I'm Shane Harris with the Alder Cooperative Extension System, and this is Clay Harris. He is a 4-H for the Talibus County 4-H program. Today we're going to be catching bugs. We've got some bugs here that we're going to show you and some things that we video that we shot of some bugs out in the wild. It's interesting to go out inside this spring and catch bugs and see what I can find. All you need is a jar and basically a stick, maybe even a camera. So today we have 10 bugs as part of our bug show. Stay tuned. Our first creepy crawly is a wolf spider. It's not an insect, but it's in the arachnid family. Wolf spiders are hunters. They're agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They mostly live in solitude and hunt alone and do not spin webs. They're the big spiders we have around here. Next we have a pill bug or some people call them roly polies. They live on the ground in leaves under rocks, maybe under rotting logs. They feed on decay and matter and rotting plants. They're best known as the roly-poly because they turn into a ball when threatened or feared in their endanger. But as you can see, they'll soon come out and start moving around again. Pill bugs live in wet locations that typically found under damp objects or in around organic matter, especially rocks. They can live up to two years, believe it or not, and they're most active at night. The sure sign of spring is when you see the eastern tiger swallowtail flying around. What a beautiful sight to see these wonderful insects every spring. The eastern tiger swallowtail is the state butterfly of Alabama. As you can see, they're beautiful butterflies and they like to feed on nectar and other flowering plants during the springtime. The males are typically yellow with black stripes. The female can be black or sometimes yellow with the stripes. The swallowtail butterflies are some of the largest group of butterflies on the continent. They're easily attracted to gardens that have an abundance of flowers. These butterflies are great pollinators and are considered good insects. They can be seen flying in open roads, woods, meadows, even fields and parks. They're one of the easiest ones to catch and look at if you've got that quart jar ready to look at and observe. Just be sure to let them go later. Here we have the patent leather beetle, sometimes called the Betsy beetle. These beetles are really neat because they're about an inch and a half long, have dark, shiny, hard shells, and are just plain neat to look at. They're found in rotting woods, especially under stumps and fallen trees. They feed on the decay and matter in the wood. One neat thing about these large beetles that we have is that they tend to be very social. There's a mama beetle and a daddy beetle and they take care of the baby larva or the grubs in the little colony. Each parent can raise up to 20 to 35 new beetles each year. These beetles can live up to one year and are relatively easy to maintain as long as they have access to moist rotting wood. This is a neat beetle to go look for. You can even pick them up. He won't mind. All that buzzing that you're seeing right now is probably from carpenter bees. Carpenter bees are one of the first insects we see that come out that tell us that it's probably springtime. Carpenter bees are great pollinators and you will find them flying back and forth from many flowers at this time of the year. Many people mistake carpenter bees as bumblebees. They're not bumblebees as they lack the yellow part on their abdomen. Carpenter bees tunnel in wood until they lay their eggs where bumblebees actually live in colonies underground. Carpenter bees are known for boring holes into wood. You see here you see a female about to enter a hole. There are two different types of carpenter bees. There are boys and girls. Girls have a solid black face whereas males have a black face with a yellow type nose. You will more likely see the male carpenter bees hovering around your house and buzzing back and forth chasing other bees.