Clouds
Weather Associated with Clouds
Flying Insects
100

A cloud forming rounded masses heaped on each other above a flat base at fairly low altitude.

What is a Cumulus cloud?

100

Weather associated with Cumulus clouds.

Fair Weather

100
A large brown scarab beetle that appears in late spring and early summer.

What is a June Bug?

200

A cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet, often with rain or snow.

What is a Stratus cloud?

200

Weather associated with Stratus clouds.

Drizzle, mist, or light snow

200
A stinging winged insect that collects nectar and pollen, produces wax and honey, and lives in large communities. It was domesticated for its honey around the end of the Neolithic period and is usually kept in hives.

What is a Honey Bee?

300

A cloud forming wispy filamentous tufted streaks (“mare's tails”) at high altitude, usually 16,500–45,000 feet (5–13 km).

What is a Cirrus cloud?

300

Weather associated with Cirrus clouds.

Fair, pleasant weather

300

A large stinging wasp that typically nests in hollow trees.

What is a Hornet?

400

A cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.

What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?

400

Weather associated with Cumulonimbus clouds.

Thunderstorms, lightning, heavy rain, hail, strong winds, and occasionally tornadoes.

400

A large hairy bee with a loud hum, living in small colonies in holes underground.

What is a Bumblebee?

500
A type of cloud forming a thick uniform gray layer at low altitude, from which rain or snow often falls (without any lightning or thunder).

What is a Nimbostratus cloud?

500

Weather associated with Nimbostratus clouds.

Steady, prolonged, and moderate-to-heavy precipitation (rain, snow, or ice pellets)

500

A fast-flying long-bodied predatory insect with two pairs of large transparent wings which are spread out sideways at rest. The voracious aquatic larvae take up to five years to reach adulthood.

What is a Dragonfly?

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