Going into their fourth year of creating giant mazes on their Douglas County farm, John and Karen Pendleton couldn’t decide on one design.

That’s why this year’s “Amaizing Bug Corn Maze” is three designs.

When the Pendletons’ summer business opens at 8 a.m. Saturday, visitors will have a chance to find their way out of cornfield mazes of a giant bee, grasshopper and ladybug.

Though Karen Pendleton said the average visitor took about 1 1/2 hours to complete one of the mazes, she and her husband and Lawrence crop artist Stan Herd have put in hundreds of hours of work to create the three corn mazes.

Planning for this year began last summer. In the past, maze designs have depicted a turtle, a butterfly and a fish.

“We try to come up with something that certainly would make a good image from the air,” John Pendleton said. “We also wanted to do something that would catch the imagination of children. We try to make it educational.”

These mazes not only will use signs to educate people about bugs, but about farming as well, Karen Pendleton said.

“It starts a lot of conversations about farming,” Karen Pendleton said. “It’s important for people to understand where their food comes from. This is a good way to do outreach, because if we have a whole society who don’t understand where their food comes from, then they might not care what happens to farmers.”

The Pendletons planted the crop in April and began cutting the fields  about 15 acres  in early June.

Karen Pendleton said the final product from the sky was always better than what she had imagined from the ground.

“There is not a greater thrill than going up in the plane and looking down,” she said. “It amazes me when it looks like it’s supposed to  the leg isn’t coming out of the head.”

Helicopter rides to see the mazes from the sky will be available for $20 Saturday.