Insect Traits
Body Parts
Name That Insect!
Name That Insect 2!
Insect Facts
100
All insects hatch from these.
What are eggs?
100
The top section of all insects is known as this.
What is the head?
100
I am around ΒΌ of an inch long and am yellow, orange or red with black spots on my wing covers.
What is a ladybug?
100

I live in hills, logs or the cracks of sidewalks and have jaws that open sideways. I can lift over 50 times my own weight.

What is an ant?

100

These three types of bees live in a honey bee colony.

What are the Queen, workers, and drones?

200
All insects have two of these attached to their heads.
What are antennae?
200
All insects have this many parts to their bodies.
What is three?
200
I am the most common of flies and am inactive at night.
What is a house fly?
200
I am a social insect who lives in hives and produces a tasty sticky substance.
What is a honey bee?
200

Bees share directions primarily through a special way that conveys information about the location and quality of food sources.

What is the "waggle dance"

300
An insect has this many pairs of legs.
What are three?
300
Some insects have this at the end of their bodies that can cause great pain.
What is a stinger?
300
I am found near water sources and the female of my kind like to bite humans.
What is a mosquito?
300
I eat only plants and I can hop, walk and even fly great distances.
What is a grasshopper?
300
Bees, termites and ants live in these.
What are colonies?
400
Insects have this type of blood in their bodies and are known as (blank) blooded.
What is cold?
400
This is the back section of an insect that holds its digestve tract.
What is the abdomen?
400
I migrate great distances in the winter, my wings are orange and yellow, and I have four stages in my development.
What is a monarch butterfly?
400
I am very aggressive and build paper nests, stay away from my stinger!
What is a wasp?
400

When we discussed insects we said that there are this many stages to its life cycle.

What are four?

500
There are said to be this many millions of insect species on the Earth.
What is six to ten?
500
An insects 6 legs are atteched to this body part.
What is a thorax?
500
I look like a twig, eat stems and plants only at night, and have three stages in my development.
What is a walking stick?
500

I live in warm climates, eat other insects (sometimes my "husband", and have a triangular shaped head.

What is a praying mantis?

500

We read in the Honey Bee story that the queen can lay up to this many eggs per day.

What is a thousand?

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