Today I going to write about science again, but on a different topic. It is on my plant science, my garden and the ecosystem it has.

Today, amongst the plants and other insects in the garden, like ants which are very common, I saw 3 centipedes, 1 snail, 2 cocoons and 2 caterpillars. I touched the snail and caterpillar. My father has warned me that some caterpillars can sting humans. I did a research online and found this website (https://alizul2.blogspot.sg/2012/12/14-beautiful-but-dangerous-caterpillars.html) about caterpillars in Singapore and US that can harm humans. One of the caterpillars we saw was a bit hairy. My brother touched everything except the centipede. I saw that one of the cocoons had a hole and was opened. The pupae inside it had already became into a butterfly. My brother and I were so impressed.

My brother has 3 plants which he had planted some months ago. One is a lemon grass plant, the other is a ginger plant and the last one is a lemon plant. He planted the lemon grass and lemon plants at home while the ginger plant was planted during a school activity. Here is a photo of his lemon plant.

Plants are living things because they can grow and respond to changes. There are 2 types of plants and they are the flowering and non-flowering plants. Green leaves in plants photosynthesize. Photosynthesis is like a system for plants which helps it make food and produce oxygen. Plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and oxygen. Did you know this is how plants give us oxygen and food. 

Plants are also living things because they can reproduce. Plants reproduce by their spores or seeds which are sometimes located in the fruits we eat. Spores come from non flowering plants while seeds are found in some flowering plants. Ferns and mushrooms are examples of plants that reproduce by spores. Mushrooms are also fungi. I will write more about fungi in another blog post. Look out for it.