10 APHIDS

CHAPTER 10 APHIDS "Let's ask Mom, Sassafras!" I grabbed my science journal and peeked out the kitchen window and saw her in the garden. Mom stood up and waved when she spotted us running toward her. "Hey, Zoey! Just the girl I wanted to see—look!" She pointed at my kale. I bent down next to Sassafras who sniffed the leaf and purred. "Oh, wow! The aphids are almost gone. Thank goodness.

They were such PESTS!" The Thinking Goggles suddenly felt tight on my head. "Oh my gosh! Mom! That's it! Maybe the grumplets are a forest pest! But instead of eating kale, they eat my magical friends' happiness! I saw them and—" "You saw some grumplets?" Mom's eyes got wide. "Yeah! They're really cute. Anyway, I saw them pulling these weird sparkly strands, which looked like cotton candy, off my friends. Do you think that

could've been their joy, Mom?" "Interesting! That does sound like a good explanation to me. So, if you're right and they're pests eating something you don't want them to, what do you think we should do?" Mom tapped my science journal and winked at me. I plopped down in the dirt and wrote in my journal while Sassafras chased a butterfly. to Grump.

"Oh, that's a good idea!" I exclaimed. Mom smiled. "Tell me more!" "Well, at the market, Nina said I could try a trap plant like nasturtiums for the aphids. A trap plant is basically something yummier than the plant they are attacking." I looked over and the butterfly had flown away, so now Sassafras was chasing a grasshopper. "OK… so if the grumplets want to eat my friends' happiness, what would taste better than that?" I paced around the garden. "What tastes like happiness? Happiness… happiness…" I tasted the sweetness of the cotton candy from the fair on my tongue. "CANDY!"

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