Habitats
Social Insects
Metamorphisis
Insect Body Parts
Potpourri
100
This is the ecosystem that insects do not live in.
What are the oceans?
100
This "royal" bee lays all of the eggs in the hive.
What is the queen bee?
100
Beetle larvae are called these.
What are grubs?
100
This part of the body is where the antennae are.
What is the head?
100
Beetles use their outer wings to do this.
What is protect?
200
Termites typically live near this natural resource because it is their favorite food.
What is wood?
200
These ants guard the nest.
What are soldier ants?
200
Praying mantises go through incomplete metamorphosis. When they hatch, they are called these, which look like adult mantises, but do not have wings.
What are nymphs?
200
Ants have a second stomach in this body part to keep food to bring back to the larvae.
What is the abdomen?
200
A cricket hears other crickets with their eardrum found on this part.
What is the front leg?
300
Butterflies migrate south in the fall because they need to live with these kind of temperatures.
What are hot or warm?
300
A queen wasp builds her nest facing this way to keep the rain out.
What is downward?
300
Insects that spin a cocoon or form a chrysalis are in this stage of metamorphosis.
What is the pupa stage?
300
This is the number of legs an insect has.
What is six?
300
This part of the body helps entomologists know which insects are bugs and which are not.
What are beak-like mouth parts?
400
Ants create these underground so they can travel from room to room.
What are tunnels?
400
Ants communicate by emitting chemical signals that other ants smell. They can also communicate by doing this, especially when they are hungry.
What is touching with their antennae?
400
When a mantis sheds its exoskeleton, it is called this.
What is molting?
400
An insects legs and wings are attached to this part of the body.
What is the thorax?
400
This type of insect accounts for two-thirds of all insects.
What are beetles?
500
Wasps use their nests for this many seasons.
What is one?
500
Ants live in groups called these.
What are colonies?
500
This kind of metamorphosis is when an insect changes its form the time it hatches to adulthood. The larva looks nothing like the adult.
What is complete metamorphosis?
500
Fireflies have this bioluminescent part in their transparent abdomen that glows.
What are lanterns?
500
These "bugs" feed on aphids. Farmers use them to stop the aphids from destroying their crops.
What are ladybugs?