Animals that eat apple trees

Animals that eat apple trees

Music & Songs: Food > Apples

Apple Poem added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Apples big,
Apples small.
Guess what?
I like them all.

Five Red Apples added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Five red apples hanging in a tree (Hold up five fingers)
The juiciest apples you ever did see.
The wind came by and gave an angry frown (Fingers flutter downward)
And one little apple came tumbling down (One finger falls)
Four red apples, hanging in a tree, etc. Five Little Apples added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Five little apples hung on a tree
The farmer didn’t care
So guess who came to eat?
A CATERPILLAR. MUNCH, MUNCH

Four little apples hung on a tree
The farmer didn’t care
So guess who came to eat?
A BIRD. MUNCH, MUNCH

Three little apples hung on a tree
The farmer didn’t care
So guess who came to eat?
A PIG. MUNCH,MUNCH

Two little apples hung on a tree
The farmer didn’t care
So guess who came to eat?
A HORSE. MUNCH,MUNCH

One little apple hung on a tree
The farmer didn’t care
So guess who came to eat?
A SCARECROW. MUNCH,MUNCH

Now the tree is bare
There are no more apples there
But when next fall comes around
Guess who’ll be there?

THE CATERPILLAR
THE BIRD
THE PIG
THE HORSE
and the SCARECROW

YUM!YUM All Around The Apple Tree added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Mulberry Bush»

Here we go round the apple tree, the apple tree, the apple tree
Here we go around the apple tree
On a frosty morning.
This is the way we climb the ladder
-pick the apples
-wash the apples
-peel the apples
-cook the apples Climbing Up The Apple Tree added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Climbing up the apple tree, (climb in place)
Swinging on a limb! (Raise arms above head, away left and right)
If I hear a robin, I may (cup hand near ear)
Sing along with him! (sing tra la la)
‘And Robin, if you fly away, (Put hands over eyes)
Here’s what I think I’ll do: (Point with index finger)
I’ll wish a pair of sparrow wings (gently flap arms at side and move around)
And fly away with you! Here Is An Apple added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

(make circle with thumb and pointer) Here is an apple
(make circle with other thumb and pointer) and here is an apple
(Make circle with arms) and a great big apple I see
Now let’s count the apples we’ve made
(repeat above actions) 1 — 2 — 3 ! Ten Red Apples added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

(Both hands high) Ten red apples grow on a tree
(Dangle one hand and then the other) Five for you and five for me.
(Shake body) Let us shake the tree just so
(Hands fall) And ten red apples will fall below
(Count ea. finger) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Ten Red Apples added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Here I have five apples. (hold up five fingers on right hand)
And here are five again. (hold up both hands)
How many apples altogether?
Why, five and five make ten! Eat An Apple added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Eat an apple; (Bring right hand to mouth)
Save the core. (Close right hand in fist)
Plant the seeds. (Bend down touch hand to ground)
And grow some more. (Extend both arms out) Apple rhyme added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Apples, apples, good to eat.
Apples, apples, juicy and sweet.
Pick them off a tree, buy them at a store,
Apples, apples, WE WANT MORE! Five Red Apples added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Five red apples in a grocery store
Bobby bought one & then there were 4
Four red apples on an apple tree
Susie ate one & then there were 3
Three red apples. What did Alice do?
Why she ate one & then there were 2
Two red apples ripening in the sun
Tommy ate one, & now there was one
One red apple & now we are done
I ate the last one & now there are none! Red Apple added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

A little red apple
Hung high in a tree
I looked up at it
And it looked down at me
«Come down, please» I called
And what do you suppose
That little red apple
Dropped right on my nose! Apple On A Stick added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Apple on a stick, apple on a stick
I can lick it all day and not get sick.
Apple in a cup, apple in a cup
I can drink it all day and not fill up.
Apple in a crunch, apple in a crunch
I can eat it all day, it is so good to munch
Apple in a cake, apple in a cake
I can eat it all day with no tummy ache
Apple in a pie, apple in a pie
I can eat it all day and never cry.
Apple in a dish, apple in a dish
I can eat it all day, it’s so delish! Apple up High added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Twinkle Twinkle Little Star»

Apple, apple, way up high,
I can reach you if I try.
Climb a ladder,
Hold on tight.
Pick you quickly
Take a bite. Have you ever seen and Apple? added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Have You Ever Seen A Lassie?»

Have you ever seen an apple, an apple, an apple,
Have you ever seen an apple, that grows on a tree?
A red one, a yellow one, a red one, a yellow one.
Have you ever seen an apple, that grows on a tree? Have You Ever Had An Apple? added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Have You Ever Seen A Lassie»

Have you ever had an apple, an apple, an apple?
Have you ever had an apple and heard it go ‘crunch’?

Have you ever had an orange, an orange, an orange? Have you ever had an
orange and heard it go ‘slurp’?

Have you ever had a banana, a banana, a banana? Have you ever had a
banana and heard it go ‘mush’ Two Red Apples added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «This Old Man»

Way up high, in a tree (raise hands over head)
Two red apples smiled at me (smile)
So I shook that tree as har-r-d as I could (Pretend to shake tree)
Down came the apples, Ummm, they were good. (Rub tummy)

Picking apples! added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Frere Jacque»

Picking apples
Picking apples
One by one
One by one Apples added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «twinkle twinkle»

Apple, apple tree so tall,
I can hardly wait till fall!
When your apples I can pick,
Fill my basket, eat them quick.
Apple, apple tree so tall,
I can hardly wait till fall!

Apple ,apple tree so fair,
What do I see growing there!
Green and round and plump and sweet,
Soon they will be good to eat.
Apple, apple tree so fair,
What do I see growing there! Do you know the apple man? added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «the muffin man»

Oh, do you know the apple man,
the apple man,
the apple man?
Oh, do you know the apple man
who likes to play with me?

Oh, he has a great big smile,
a great big smile,
a great big smile,
Oh, he has a great big smile
and likes to play with me.

Continue with other verses that the children make up about the apple man. Applesauce added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Yankee Doodle»

Peel an apple,
cut it up,
cook it in a pot.
When you taste it
you will find
it’s applesauce you’ve got! Look at the apple added 8-8-98 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «the mulberry bush»

Look at the apple I have found,
so fat and rosy on the ground.
Mother will wash it and
cut it in two
half for me and half for you. A Little Apple Seed added 3-1-99 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Itsy, Bitsy Spider»

Once a little apple seed was planted in the ground
Down came the raindrops, falling all around.
Out came the big sun, bright as bright could be
And that little apple seed grew to be an apple tree! Apples Are Falling added 3-1-99 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Are You Sleeping?»

Apples are falling, apples are falling
From the tree, from the tree.
Pick up all the apples, pick up all the apples,
One. two, three; one, two,. three.
(Use appropriate motions for actions) A Wiggly Worm added 8-18-99 Original Author Unknown

Sung to: «Boom! Boom! Ain’t It Great to Be Crazy?»

Chorus:
Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?
Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?
Red and green and yellow, too…
Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?

Verse 1
Way up high in an apple tree, I saw two eyes look at me.
I reached for an apple; it started to squirm…oops! I found a wiggly worm!

Verse 2
That wiggly worm is a friend of mine. We eat apples all the time.
I let him crawl back to that tree… hey! I see that worm looking at me!

Apple added 8-19-02 Original Author Unknown

I know a fruit that grows on trees,
An apple is its name, oh!

(Chorus)
A. P. P. L. E.
A. P. P. L. E.
A. P. P. L. E.
An apple is its name, oh!

In summer and in early fall
It’s time to pick an apple!
Chorus

It may be sweet or may be tart,
It’s red, or green, or yellow!
Chorus

A McIntosh or Granny Smith,
A Winesap or Delicious!
Chorus

Make applesauce or apple juice
Or apple pie with apples!
Chorus

Apple Was Its Name-O added 5-13-03 Original Author Unknown

I know a fruit that’s good to eat and apple was it’s name O!
A-P-P-L-E! A-P-P-L-E! A-P-P-L-E! And apple was it’s name-O!
I know a fruit that’s good to eat and apple was it’s name O!
Crunch-P-P-L-E! Crunch-P-P-L-E! Crunch-P-P-L-E And apple was it’s name-O! (etc, etc, etc.)

Apple Fingerplay added 9-2-03 Original Author Unknown

Five little apples lying on the floor.
I’ll roll one away, and that leaves four.
(make rolling motion with arms)

Four little apples hanging on a tree.
I’ll pick one off, and that leaves three.
(pick an imaginary apple)

Three little apples, I know what to do!
I’ll put one in my pocket, and that leaves two.
(pretend to put apple in pocket)

Two little apples sitting in the sun.
I’ll pick one up, and that leaves one.
(pretend to pick apple up off the floor)

One little apple waiting in my lunch.
I’ll eat it up with a crunch, crunch, crunch!
(pretend to take a big bite!)

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Meet 12 Carnivorous Plants That Eat Everything From Insects to Mammals

We all know the basics of the food chain: plants eat sunlight, animals eat plants, and bigger animals eat smaller animals. In the world of nature, though, there are always exceptions, as evidenced by plants that attract, trap, and digest animals (mostly insects, but also the occasional snail, lizard, or even small mammal). On the following images, you’ll meet 12 carnivorous plants, ranging from the familiar Venus flytrap to the less well-known cobra lily.

Tropical Pitcher Plant

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The main thing that distinguishes the tropical pitcher plant, genus Nepenthes, from other carnivorous vegetables is its scale: the «pitchers» of this plant can reach over a foot in height, ideal for capturing and digesting not only insects, but small lizards, amphibians, and even mammals. The doomed animals are attracted by the plant’s sweet-scented nectar, and once they fall into the pitcher, digestion can take as long as two months. There are about 150 Nepenthes species scattered around the eastern hemisphere, native to Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Also known as monkey cup, the pitchers of some of these plants are used as drinking cups by monkeys (which are too large to find themselves on the wrong end of the food chain).

Cobra Lily

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So named because it looks like a cobra snake about to strike, the cobra lily, Darlingtonia californica, is a rare plant native to the cold-water bogs of Oregon and northern California. This plant is truly diabolical: not only does it lure insects into its pitcher with its sweet smell, but its closed pitchers have numerous, see-through false «exits» that exhaust its desperate victims as they try to escape. Oddly enough, naturalists have yet to identify the natural pollinator of the cobra lily. Clearly, some type of insect gathers this flower’s pollen and lives to see another day, but it’s unknown precisely which.

Trigger Plant

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Despite its aggressive-sounding name, it’s unclear if the trigger plant (genus Stylidium) is genuinely carnivorous or simply trying to protect itself from pesky insects. Some species of trigger plants are equipped with «trichomes,» or sticky hairs, which capture small bugs that have nothing to do with the pollination process — and the leaves of these plants secrete digestive enzymes that slowly dissolve their unfortunate victims. Pending further research, though, we don’t know if trigger plants actually derive any nutrition from their small, wriggling prey or are simply dispensing with unwanted visitors.

Triphyophyllum

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A species of plant known as a liana, Triphyophyllum peltatum has more stages in its life cycle than Ridley Scott’s xenomorph. First, it grows unremarkable-looking oval-shaped leaves. Then around the time it flowers, it produces long, sticky, «glandular» leaves that attract, capture, and digest insects. And lastly, it becomes a climbing vine equipped with short, hooked leaves, sometimes attaining lengths of over 100 feet. If this sounds creepy, there’s no need to worry: Outside of greenhouses specializing in exotic plants, the only place you can encounter T. peltatum is if you visit tropical West Africa.

Portuguese Sundew

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The Portuguese sundew, Drosophyllum lusitanicum, grows in nutrient-poor soil along the coasts of Spain, Portugal, and Morocco—so you can forgive it for supplementing its diet with the occasional insect. Like many other carnivorous plants on this list, the Portuguese sundew attracts bugs with its sweet aroma, traps them in a sticky substance called mucilage on its leaves, secretes digestive enzymes that slowly dissolve the unfortunate insects, and absorbs the nutrients so it can live to flower another day. (By the way, Drosophyllum has nothing to do with Drosophila, better known as the fruit fly.)

Roridula

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Native to South Africa, Roridula is a carnivorous plant with a twist: It doesn’t actually digest the insects it captures with its sticky hairs but leaves this task to a bug species called Pameridea roridulae, with which it has a symbiotic relationship. What does the Roridula get in return? Well, the excreted waste of P. roridulae is especially rich in nutrients that the plant absorbs. (By the way, 40-million-year-old fossils of Roridula have been discovered in the Baltic region of Europe, a sign that this plant was much more widespread during the Cenozoic Era than it is now.)

Butterwort

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Named for its broad leaves that look like they’ve been coated with butter, the butterwort (genus Pinguicula) is native to Eurasia, North America, South America, and Central America. Rather than emitting a sweet smell, butterworts attract insects that mistake the pearly secretions on their leaves for water, at which point they get mired in the sticky goo and are slowly dissolved by digestive enzymes. You can often tell when a butterwort has had a good meal by the hollow insect exoskeletons, made out of chitin, left on its leaves after their insides have been sucked dry.

Corkscrew Plant

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Unlike the other plants on this list, the corkscrew plant (genus Genlisea) doesn’t much care for insects; rather, its main diet consists of protozoans and other microscopic animals, which it attracts and eats using specialized leaves that grow under the soil. (These underground leaves are long, pale, and rootlike, but Genlisea also has more normal-looking green leaves that sprout above ground and are used to photosynthesize light). Technically classified as herbs, corkscrew plants inhabit the semiaquatic regions of Africa and both Central and South America.

Venus Flytrap

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The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is to other carnivorous plants what Tyrannosaurus rex is to dinosaurs: maybe not the biggest but certainly the most well-known member of its breed. Despite what you may have seen in the movies, the Venus flytrap is fairly small (this entire plant is no more than half a foot in length), and its sticky, eyelid-like «traps» are only about an inch long. And it’s native to the North Carolina and South Carolina subtropical wetlands. One interesting fact about the Venus flytrap: To cut down on false alarms from falling leaves and pieces of debris, this plant’s traps will snap shut only if an insect touches two different interior hairs in the course of 20 seconds.

Waterwheel Plant

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For all intents and purposes, the aquatic version of the Venus flytrap, the waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa), has no roots, floating on the surface of lakes and enticing bugs with its small traps (five to nine apiece on symmetrical whorls that extend down this plant’s length). Given the similarities in their eating habits and physiology—the traps of the waterwheel plant can snap shut in as little as one-hundredth of a second—you may not be surprised to learn that A. vesiculosa and the Venus flytrap share a least one common ancestor, a carnivorous plant that lived sometime during the Cenozoic Era.

Moccasin Plant

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The moccasin plant (genus Cephalotus), originally discovered in Southwest Australia, checks all the appropriate boxes for a meat-eating vegetable: It attracts insects with its sweet scent and then lures them into its moccasin-shaped pitchers, where the unfortunate bug is slowly digested. (To further confuse prey, the lids of these pitchers have translucent cells, which cause insects to knock themselves silly trying to escape.) What makes the moccasin plant unusual is that it’s more closely related to flowering plants (like apple trees and oak trees) than it is to other carnivorous pitcher plants, which can likely be chalked up to convergent evolution.

Brocchinia Reducta

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Not quite broccoli, though every bit as off-putting to people who don’t care for carnivorous plants, Brocchinia reducta is actually a type of bromeliad, the same family of plants that includes pineapples, Spanish mosses, and various thick-leaved succulents. Native to southern Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana, Brocchinia is equipped with long, slender pitchers that reflect ultraviolet light (which insects are attracted to) and, like most of the other plants on this list, emits a sweet scent that’s irresistible to the average bug. For a long time, botanists were unsure if Brocchinia was a true carnivore, until the discovery in 2005 of digestive enzymes in its copious bell.

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