Ep 6. Family Tree; The Jitterbug

Mr. Mantis has assigned the kids a project to build a Family Tree -- a tree made of twigs and leaves with a branch to represent each bug in their family, and a memento from the place where they hatched to decorate it. Of the three adopted kids, Dragon and Bounce are happy to find their special something in Sunny Patch. Shimmer, however, wants to find a memento from her real 'hatchday' place to decorate their tree. So Miss Spider offers to help her find where she was born. When Shimmer starts to wonder about her beetle mother along the way, Miss Spider shares her story of how she herself was adopted and how she came to find her new home. Although they are unable to find Shimmer's 'hatchday' tree, Shimmer is comforted by the fact that she found Miss Spider and the family she was meant to be with. In the end Shimmer decorates their Family Tree with a flower Miss Spider saved from a very special day -- the day Shimmer was adopted;Squirt is having a blast surfing the web on a windy day when he gets a little overzealous and decides to try a daring new stunt -- the super spider surfer loop-de-loop. Squirt's siblings think it's a bad idea, so when Squirt takes a tumble off his web and does several more loop-de-loops than he'd intended -- he's too embarrassed to admit that his super stunt was actually a very scary accident. But are the kids ever impressed! Squirt's a real pro-surfer! Basking somewhat uncomfortably in his newfound fame, Squirt turns into a bonafide jitterbug when word gets around and every buggy wants to see his amazing new stunt again. Too scared to surf, Squirt finally admits what happened to Miss Spider, who helps him find both the courage to admit the truth to his friends and to get back on his web again.