Bubbles were the focus of a recent kids’ class. After studying the numerous spittlebugs on the grasses and goldenrods, they simulated the production of the bugs’ coat of bubbles. They also learned that many species of adult aquatic insects, which need oxygen from the air not water, carry air bubbles on their bodies.
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