This is what insects do with their skin when they need to grow (hint: it begins with an m)
What is molt?
100
Ants, butterflies and bees go through 4 stages of a life cycle. What is this called?
What is complete metamorphosis?
100
Ants build there nests here
What is in underground tunnels?
100
This is the larva stage of a butterfly life cycle
What is a caterpillar?
100
This person's job is to study insects.
What is an entomologist?
200
All of the insects in a social insect colony come from this insect.
What is the queen?
200
The stages of complete metamorphosis are _______, larva, pupa, adult.
What is egg?
200
This is how often the queen ant leaves her nest after she loses her wings
What is never?
200
These are the 3 parts of the butterfly ( or any insect )
What is head, thorax, abdomen?
200
This is the second stage of incomplete metamorphosis.
What is the nymph?
300
This insect sheds it's wings after it mates and begins a new colony.
What is a queen ant?
300
I am a praying mantis. When I hatch from an egg, I look like a mini version of an adult praying mantis. What is this stage called?
What is a nymph?
300
Fireflies have "lanterns" in their abdomens to flash signals to each other when they are looking for a mate. This is called _____________________? (hint: long word that begins with "b"?
What is bioluminescence?
300
This is the last and final stage of the butterfly life cycle.
What is adult?
300
The black pieces laying in the bottom of our caterpillar cups are pieces of this.
What is the exoskeleton?
400
This group of insects leave their nests behind in the fall and build a new one each spring.
What is a paper wasp?
400
This is a 3 stage life cycle with stages egg, nymph, adult.
What is this called?
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
400
Grasshoppers, locusts and crickets all make sounds by rubbing these together.
What are wings or legs?
400
This stage of the butterfly life cycle is categorized by lots of eating and growth.
What is the caterpillar?
400
This is what you call a community of animals living close together.
What is a colony?
500
The male bee in a honeybee colony is named this.
What is a drone?
500
The hard outer skeleton of all insects.
What is the exoskeleton?
500
The caterpillar spins a silky thread to help it do this.
What is to hold onto the leaf?
500
A fine powdery substance produced within flowers, it must be transported from flower to flower.