Insect Facts
Cockroaches breath through this?
What is their Skin
How many legs does a spider have?
What is 8 legs.
Which reptile can change color to blend in?
Chameleon
The number of main body parts an insect has.
What is three (head, thorax, and abdomen).
This is the only mammal that can truly fly.
What is a bat.
A Giant Centipede can grow up to this long.
What is a foot?
Spiders spin this sticky material out of their bodies to catch food?
What is a spiderweb (or silk)?
A reptile with a hard shell covering its body
What is a turtle?
Instead of an internal skeleton made of bones, insects wear this hard, crunchy shell on the outside of their bodies.
What is the exoskeleton?
Bats use this special sound method to find food in the dark.
What is echolocation?
For every human on the planet, how many bugs are there?
What is 1.5 million.
Unlike insects (which have three main body parts), spiders only have this many?
What is two.
Which reptile can hold its breath for over 20 minutes?
Sea Turtle
This helpful red and black beetle protects garden plants by eating pesky aphids.
What is the ladybug?
Most bats eat this type of food, like mosquitoes and moths.
What are insects?
The most dangerous animal/insect in the world
What are Mosquitos
Most spiders have this many eyes pointed in different directions. This helps them notice movement all around them.
What are Eight simple eyes?
This large reptile is known for being a great mother.
What are crocodiles and alligators?
How much can an ant can lift?
What is about 50 times its own weight?
This kind of bat drinks fruit juice instead of catching bugs.
What is a fruit bat?
In some species of flies, such as the deer fly, horse fly, and black fly, only this gender drinks blood.
What is the female?
How do spiders eat since they don't have teeth?
They inject a digestive juice into their prey, turning the insides into a liquid soup. Then they drink it up.
What is the best way to tell if something is a snake or a lizard?
Lizards have ears, snakes to not.
This caterpillar has been raised by people for thousands of years to collect its cocoon and weave it into a soft, shiny fabric.
What is the Silkworm?
This famous bat from Central and South America drinks the blood of animals.
What is a vampire bat?