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Beach Hopper

Orchestroidea corniculata

  

Photo ©Patricia McQuade

Beach Hoppers are also called sand fleas, but they are not fleas, and not even insects. They are crustaceans. They mostly hide in their burrows during the day, since they are a favorite food for shorebirds and sand beetles. At night they come out to feed on rotting kelp. Animals who feed on dead things are called decomposers. Decomposers are important, because dead things need to be broken down and returned to the earth so they can provide nutrients for living things.

Earth Cards
Nature Trading Cards

What are Earth Cards?

Trading cards?  Flash cards?  Game cards? Animal cards? Earth cards are all of these.

  • Collect them like baseball cards.
  • Play games with them like a game deck.
  • Use them as flash cards and species cards for learning. 
  • Trade them with your friends.

Order your set of
Nature Trading Cards

Box of 35 cards          $5.00
Box of 65 cards        $10.00
Box of 100 cards       $15.00

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You can customize your box of cards. Just go to Choose your cards and pick the species you want included.  
A box of Nature Trading Cards would be a nice gift for your child's classroom. You can also order them in quantities, at special prices, to use as fundraisers for your school. Schools