Johanna Speaks

Coyote Peterson is in Japan. He is trying to find a praying mantis. He found one!

Coyote Peterson said the females grow bigger than the males. He also said when the female and a male breed, afterwords the females bite the heads of the males and eat the body! That is really gross and weird! 

Coyote Peterson said when the females have their eggs, the females will start dying. That is really sad. 

He also said the reason he loves praying mantis is that they look so alien-like. And they have a really good eye-sight. 

Coyote Peterson said birds and different reptiles and even mammals will try and eat the praying mantis. He also said the praying mantis will come out at night and during the day. Coyote Peterson said the praying mantis will try to eat small frogs, lizards, and even small snakes! Wow! That is a pretty cool praying mantis!

I kind of like praying mantis. It's just that they look so creepy with the big eyes and how they eat too. But they are also pretty cool how they can eat big animals. 

It started to rain and Coyote Peterson said he better let the praying mantis go. 

Coyote Peterson is in Arizona. He is going to be talking about two big lizards called, The Beaded Lizard, and, The Gila Monster!

Coyote Peterson said that the Beaded lizard and the Gila Monster happens to be the only two venomous lizards in the Western hemisphere. Mario said the Beaded lizard and the Gila Monster both belong to the genus Heloderma, which means they both have studded skin.

Do you see those bumps on the lizard? Well, they are actually little bones covered with skin and scale., which makes them look beaded or armored. 

The Beaded lizard can grow up to about three feet! Wow! That is a big lizard! The Beaded lizard looks really cool because it looks like it has really strong armor. 

Mario said you will find the Beaded lizards in Mexico down to Guatemala.  And the Gila Monster overlaps in certain ranges as the Beaded lizard. He also said the Beaded lizard and the Gila Monster have very pore eyesight, that they use their tongue and their sense of hearing and sense of smell to detect prey and predators. 

The Gila Monster and the Beaded lizard eats bird nests, other eggs, or other young, because of how slow they are. 

The Beaded lizard has more venom than the Gila Monster because the Beaded lizard is bigger so that means it has a little bit more venom than the Gila Monster.  

Coyote Peterson is at Bell Creek. He is trying to find a rainbow trout. Coyote Peterson said normally people would be fly fishing to catch the rainbow trout but he is going to make his own net that is made of, a long stick, rope, and his shirt. He also said that Mark and Mario don't believe that he is going to catch the rainbow trout, But Coyote Peterson does think that he is going to catch the fish. 

Coyote Peterson sees a whole pocket of trout fish, but the fish are in deep water so Coyote Peterson said he is going to move upstream and find a narrow pocket of water where he can go knee-deep and try to catch a rainbow trout. Coyote Peterson found a really big pond! He said it's actually a really great chance for him to catch one because the fish are not in deep water. The fish do not like the light because there could be predators so they go under big rocks. Mark got a stick and started poking under the rocks a little to get the fish to come out and then Coyote Peterson can try and catch the fish. On their tenth try, they finally got the rainbow trout!

Coyote Peterson said if the rainbow trout is out of water for a little bit it will get stressed out! He also said to identify the rainbow trout is to see if the fish has a green line and a pretty pinkish stripe. if it does then that means it's a rainbow trout!

The rainbow trout eats little fish, crustaceans, other fish eggs. A group of trout is called a hover. The reason why it's called a hover is that when they swim they go back and forth very slowly keeping their balance, the water is just flowing, and then in a burst of speed, they go in the darker and deeper water of pockets. 

Coyote Peterson said it took them three hours to catch the rainbow trout!

My sister Noelle got a horse!

The horse that Noelle got is all brown with black on its legs. It looks really pretty! She is getting the horse this Saturday. 

Here is a picture of the horse that Noelle got:

Horses can run up to about 55 mph. The horse that Noelle is getting is not trained at all. She is really excited to train it. She said it's a bare mare. She also said she needs a name for the horse. I was thinking of Joelle or something because her name is Noelle and my name is Johanna so she could name it Joelle. She texted me and said she was thinking of that too!

My friends said she should name it Riley or Sterling. I think Sterling is a great name for it! This Saturday Noelle wanted me to go with her and see the horse and then see the fireworks! But she said if the horse is starting to act up in the trailer then she can't take me. So I am really hoping I get to go with her and see the horse!

A young male horse is called a colt. A young female horse is called fillies.

I wish I could have a painted horse! Painted horses are my favorite! When I say painted horses I don't mean like literally people painting horses I just mean the type of breed they are.

Here is a picture of a painted horse:

There are some new kids that moved to our street! There are only three girls. they have seven kids but the other siblings already moved out. One of the girl's ages are 9 and there are twins. The twins are both 11 years old. They moved in almost a month ago. and they are really nice! The names of the girls are, Annabelle, Abigail and Rosie. Annabelle and Abigail are twins.

They have baby squirrels! They said the baby squirrels are not even a month old. I went to their house that is up the street from us. So they are very close to us. When I got to their house I got to hold the squirrels. They were really cute! The reason why they have the squirrels is that their dad found them. And the baby squirrels think that their mom died so they took them, and took very good care of them.

The names of the two baby squirrels are, raisin and pickle. Pickle is a boy I think and raisin is a girl.

The baby squirrels have five toes on the back and in the front, they have four toes. Squirrels eat when their bigger, fruits, nuts,veggies, seeds, incects, eggs and plants.  The baby squirrels that they have loves grapes. We are really glade they love grapes because the grapes give them hydration so my friends don’t have to really give them a drink of milk. 

I really wish I had baby squirrels.

Here are some pictures and videos of the baby squirrels: