Physical
Characteristics
Habitat
Life
Cycle
Basic
Needs
Types of
Insects
100
This is the number of legs an insect has.
What is 6?
100
Some species of this insect live in colonies under the ground.
What is an ant?
100
All insects start out in this stage.
What is an egg?
100
The air supplies this element that all insects need.
What is oxygen?
100
This type of insects rubs its legs to make a chirping noise.
What is a cricket?
200
An insect's legs are attached to this part of the body.
What is the thorax?
200
This insect lives in gardens, farms, and yards and eats aphids.
What is a ladybug?
200
The adult stage of a meal worm.
What is darkling beetle?
200
Rivers and lakes supply this important need for insects.
What is water?
200
This spotted insect eats aphids off of plants.
What is a ladybug?
300
These are the three body parts of an insect.
What is head, thorax, and abdomen?
300
This insect, names for a fire-breathing animal, lives around lakes and rivers.
What is a dragonfly?
300
Another name for a butterfly larva.
What is caterpillar?
300
Milkweed leaves supply this need for monarch caterpillars.
What is food?
300
This type of insect looks like a twig.
What is a walking stick?
400
The wings are attached to this part of an insect's body.
What is the thorax?
400
This insect migrates to California and Mexico during the winter.
What is a butterfly?
400
A butterfly forms this structure in its pupa stage.
What is chrysalis?
400
Spitting tobacco juice is one way a grasshopper does this.
What is protect itself?
400
This pesky insect's larva are called wrigglers.
What is a mosquito?
500
A butterfly uses this tube to drink nectar.
What is the proboscis?
500
This insect, whose abdomen lights up on warm summer nights, lives in fields and groves of trees.
What is a lightning bug?
500
These are the three types of metamorphosis.
What are complete, incomplete, and simple?
500
Blending in with its surroundings is one way a stick bug does this.
What is camoflauge itself?
500
This yellow and black insect has fuzzy legs to carry pollen from plant to plant and uses its stinger to defend itself.
What is a bee?
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