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Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus)

Snowy Owl and Raven were both pure white. They decide to make each other more colorful, and Raven paints gray crescents on Owl’s white feathers. But Raven will not sit still while Owl paints him, and in frustration, Snowy Owl pours lamp oil onto Raven, turning his feathers black as night. Transformed, the Raven cries,

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June Bug (Phyllophaga species)

It’s better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.  Mark Twain This is a large genus of New World scarab beetles – so taxonomically they are not bugs – which are within the Insect Order Hemiptera, or true bugs.   The Phyllophaga are commonly known as May beetles, June bugs, or June beetles.  They

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